As I already mentioned, the new Sandy Bridge Xeons are fast, especially with two high-end Xeon E5-2690's in a single system. One thing I mentioned in the previous dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 piece is that I had yet to test the larger Folding@Home units and get new power consumption figures with the machines. Today I decided to publish a little...
Today we are going to take a quick look at the AMD Opteron 6128 CPU which has become a very cost-effective building block for a multi-socket, high-memory system. Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 series is great. I did a Xeon E5-2687W single socket preview and a Dual socket Xeon E5-2690 review and the performance was awesome. Intel knows that it...
Several readers each week read articles about Supermicro IPMIview and various mentions each week and want to give it a try but cannot find where to download the program. I will note, many things like KVM consoles will not work with IPMI 2.0 from other vendors, but you can see the machines using its search feature so the utility...
Recently I had some performance previews of the Xeon E5-2687W which one could easily tell were a bit slanted. The E5-2687W is a 150w workstation part, and not something we would expect to see a lot of in single CPU configurations. Today we will look at some preview numbers from dual Xeon E5-2690 CPUs, Intel's current LGA 2011 dual...
Last week I took a look at the Intel Pro/1000 PT gigabit Ethernet adapter. This week I am going to show off the Intel Gigabit CT Desktop adapter which runs around $35 new (see Amazon for Intel Gigabit CT Desktop adapter) and is a go-to adapter for users looking for high levels of compatibility. The Gigabit CT Ethernet adapter is...
Today we are looking at the Corsair Hydro Series H80 CPU cooler. Most users in the server/ workstation market look at air cooling for their CPUs and for good reason. Those that can use Intel's LGA 1155 CPUs (either Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge versions of an Intel core) were fortunate enough to be able to use Intel's retail...
I recently posted about the Dell/ Silicom PEG6I six port Gigabit Ethernet adapter which I was able to get very inexpensively. One note I had was that I had yet to test it on ESXi 5.0 and I received a lot of e-mail on the subject. Unfortunately, I am in the process of clearing out a lot of old...
One question I get asked often is how to make a desktop PC VMware ESXi ready. That question invariably differs from case to case (and I cannot answer all questions) but one of the best bits of advice I can give is to make sure you have at least one networks adapter supported in VMware ESXi. I will be...
Today we are looking at the ASUS P9X79 WS which is a workstation motherboard built around Intel's X79 chipset and the LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors. Unlike the previously reviewed ASUS P9X79, this is a higher-end part, with a lot more functionality built-in. Unlike the base model, the ASUS P9X79 WS contains workstation-centric features such as additional PCIe slots and dual...
I have used many Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad network adapters to provide extra ports in servers for a few years now. They are well supported Intel 82571GB-based cards that are re-branded by Dell and other vendors. The big advantage to cards like these are that they allow users to add a lot of network ports into a single PCIe...