The first P67 board I purchased was the ASUS P8P67 Pro. At the time, it was a close race for me between the P8P67 Pro and P8P67 Deluxe decided primarily by retailer availability. Two months later, I finally purchased the P8P67 Deluxe with the Cougar Point B3 stepping and am able to do some comparisons. Based on the P67...
The Intel Xeon E3-1270 is essentially the same as Intel’s Core i7-2600 series CPU with the omission of integrated GPU capabilities, which cuts 15w from the chip’s TDP and adds support for unbuffered ECC DIMMs. Intel also offers the Xeon E3-1275, which includes the integrated GPU and consequently adds 15w to the TDP of the...
Major news this week including the Intel Xeon E3-1200 series and Bromolow platform launch, Microsoft releasing a free iSCSI target for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and Windows Home Server 2011 moving to RTM status and being released to OEMs, TechNet and MSDN subscribers.
Intel Xeon E3 CPU and Bromolow...
The Intel Xeon E3-1240 is the second step up in the Sandy Bridge Xeon E3 series when looking at processors that include Hyper-Threading. As the Xeon E3-1220 (no HT), Xeon E3-1230 and Xeon E3-1280 have been reviewed previously, this review will be mostly performance based. For more information on the Sandy Bridge Xeon E3 series and Bromolow platform including...
The Tyan S5512WGM2NR is a C204 based motherboard for the new Xeon E3 series CPUs that includes an onboard LSI SAS2008 controller. Intel launched an anticipated bombshell on the UP market with Bromolow's launch this week. The Tyan S5512WGM2NR is targeted at a similar market as the previous generation Supermicro X8SI6-F which is an excellent Lynnfield Xeon motherboard. The...
Today Intel is launching the Xeon E3 series CPU line as part of the Bromolow platform alongside the C202, C204 and C206 chipsets. This is a much anticipated release where Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture moves to dominate the UP market for the near future. When Intel delayed the Bromolow platform launch due to the Cougar Point flaw, users were...
Supermicro's AOC-STGN-i2S provides 10-gigabit ethernet using an Intel 82599 controller. Using dual SFP+ connectors and a PCIe 2.0 x8 interface, the card packs a lot of bandwidth in a relatively small, low profile package that can fit in 2U enclosures. One issue with today's ubiquitous 1Gbps GigE connections is that they deliver anywhere from 100 to 125MB/s of real-world...
Some big news came out this week from Amazon.com, Santa Clara Consulting Group, Intel, and OCZ. Overall solid state drives and the transition from physical media to the cloud for some applications are hot themes this year.
Amazon.com Launches Cloud Drive and Cloud Player
Amazon.com launched what could be a bombshell in the online storage industry this week. Amazon.com's Cloud Drive...
Since I have reviewed the Xeon E3-1220, E3-1230 and E3-1280 I have received a lot of questions surrounding the C200 series chipset codenamed Bromolow for the Xeon E3 family which has not yet arrived to market. There is enough information out there to at least make some educated guesses between what information has leaked and what we know about...
The ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution is the third ASUS P67 motherboard reviewed to date. ASUS has done a great job in rolling out features such as dedicated Intel Ethernet LAN connections, USB 3.0, Marvell SATA III 6.0gbs controllers, and their digital VRM solutions out across their line. The WS line of ASUS boards is well known as being very...