Supermicro has released their information on their Intel Xeon E3-1200 V2 lineup and support for existing motherboards. The Intel Xeon E3-1200 V2 lineup is based on the Ivy Bridge CPU and is built on Intel's 22mm process. We have already looked at the Intel Xeon E3-1200 lineup and the Ivy Bridge Xeon benchmarks will be up on this site...
Ivy Bridge is Intel's 2012 successor to 2011's Sandy Bridge platform. I think platform makes more sense at this point since the CPU now contains not just the compute cores, but also the GPU, PCIe controller and memory controllers. Ivy Bridge's improvements can basically be put into two big buckets. First, Intel has introduced its 22nm architecture which promises...
This week we are taking a look at the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, which is an update to the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus (aka the Hyper 212+) that I recently reviewed. Cooler Master's Hyper 212 line has been very popular because it provides competitive cooling at a very competitive price. The intent of this Cooler Master lineup...
Hot on the heels of the Z9PE-D8 WS first view that Patrick will have a review of shortly, today we are doing a first look of the ASUS P8Z77 WS (which Patrick will also be reviewing soon.) The ASUS P8Z77 WS board is for the more mainstream desktop LGA 1155 based Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge CPU's. This does...
Today we are looking at the StarTech SATSASBAY425 which is a 4-in-1 2.5" drives to 5.25" drive bay hot swap unit great for SSDs. As SSD prices fall, it becomes more likely that users will turn to RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 10 arrays to provide extra speed, redundancy and/ or capacity. Personally, I have had at least...
Intel recently launched its Ivy Bridge line of consumer CPUs. As we have seen for the past few generations, Intel generally takes its desktop CPUs, adds ECC support and ensures that all features such as VT-d are enabled, and then launches its Xeon shortly after the desktop part launch. The UP Intel Xeon E3 series, a marketing moniker launched...
This piece is the second part of the series walking through the Gigabyte server motherboard IPMI 2.0 remote management features powered by Avocent. In the Gigabyte Server Motherboard IPMI Walkthrough – Part 1 piece, we looked at features such as the network, user authentication and other setup areas around the Avocent MergePoint solution used by Gigabyte including the GA-7PESH1...
Today we are looking at a cooler that has been a very strong value for awhile now, the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus (also known as the Hyper 212+) CPU cooler. The Hyper 212 Plus is a fairly standard heatpipe tower cooler size wise and is not the best performer. What it does do well is provide fairly good...
Just spotted this new board over at Supermicro, I can only think that this motherboard was released after my comment on the Tyan S7053 server board, being my board of choice currently :) I have a feeling this motherboard could replace the S7053 and take the overall crown of king of all Intel Xeon E5 LGA 2011 server boards. Supermicro and...
One of the most popular server RAID controller chips out there is the LSI SAS 2208. The LSI SAS 2208 is a 6.0gbs SAS 2 or SATA III based controller that features eight ports and native PCIe 2.0 connectivity. In the forums we have maintained a LSI Controller Mapping between LSI controllers and their OEM counterparts. This post will be updated...