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Intel E5-2600 Series "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeons

Posted by: Hooz on: 03/06/2012 05:41 PM [ 8 comment(s) ]

Today marks the launch of the latest in Intel's Xeon family of processors, the Sandy Bridge-EP based E5-2600 series. The new Xeons make a splash with more cores, more cache and a host of other cool, new features, but how will they stack-up against the current king-of-the-hill, the Westmere-EP based 5600 series Xeons? I put a pair of E5-2687Ws up against a pair of X5690s to see how things would shake out.



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Intel 7500 Series "Nehalem-EX" Xeons

Posted by: Hooz on: 03/30/2010 10:57 PM [ 2 comment(s) ]

Intel is busy refreshing their whole workstation/server Xeon processors these days. A few weeks ago it was 5600 series Westmere-EP for the 2-socket crowd and today they are releasing the new 7500 series Nehalem-EX for the 2-socket and more crowd. Sporting eight Nehalem based cores and 24mb of L3 cache per processor, the 7500 series Xeon should prove to be a computational powerhouse!

Our test system today is a 4-way capable Dell PowerEdge R810 packing a pair of X7560 Xeons (running at 2.26ghz), 128gb of DDR3 and a whole host of other cool new features that will make your head spin.



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Intel 5600 Series "Westmere EP" Xeons

Posted by: Hooz on: 03/16/2010 08:27 PM [ 4 comment(s) ]

Intel's new "Westmere EP" based Xeon offers quite a few enhancements over the previous generation "Nehalem EP" core. More cores and new instructions are the obvious additions, but is there more to it than that? Let's pop the hood on a shiny new pair of X5680 Xeons and find out.



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Nehalem: Xeon Gets Core i7 Upgrade

Posted by: Micah "Hooz" Schmidt on: 03/29/2009 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

I've been at this whole hardware review thing for quite a while now, and I've seen my share of whizz-bang new stuff that is going to change the face of modern computing. Over the years, some of those ...

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Harpertown: New 45nm Xeons from Intel

Posted by: Micah Schmidt on: 09/17/2007 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

It's been quite a while now since Intel introduced their Bensley platform for workstations and servers. As a platform, Bensley brought all sorts of new features to the table. Things like faster, indep...

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Supermicro SuperServer 5015M-UR

Posted by: Jim Kirk on: 02/10/2007 06:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

When you've dealt with as much high-end hardware as we have over the years, it's easy to get a little jaded and difficult to impress. With that in mind, every now and then a product comes along...

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Intel Quad-core: Clovertown Performance Reviewed

Posted by: Micah "Hooz" Schmidt on: 11/11/2006 06:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Quad-core. That sounds pretty straight-forward. "Quad" means four and "cores" means, well, cores. It seems simple enough, but apparently it depends on who you ask. Today is the of...

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Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (Socket AM2)

Posted by: Micah "Hooz" Schmidt on: 05/23/2006 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Up to this point, AMD has been happily riding along on the DDR bandwagon. The K8 series processors and their on-die memory controllers were designed from the ground-up to make efficient use of DDR mem...

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Intel Woodcrest Performance Preview

Posted by: Micah "Hooz" Schmidt on: 05/17/2006 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Last fall, Jim and I were invited out to Intel's Jones Farm campus to get a little hands-on preview of the then "as-yet-to-be-released" Bensley server platform. The Bensley platform is based...

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Supermicro SuperServer 6014H-32

Posted by: Jim Kirk on: 02/26/2006 06:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Those of us who work in datacenters on a regular basis understand that space is often at a premium. As a result, getting as much performance out of each "U" of vertical rack space is...

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Intel Bensley Platform Preview

Posted by: Micah "Hooz" Schmidt on: 11/07/2005 06:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

About a month ago Jim and I were invited to fly out to Oregon and spend some quality time at Intel's Jones Farm campus. The main purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with Intel's upcoming dual-c...

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Intel Workshop - October 2005

Posted by: Micah Schmidt and Jim Kirk on: 10/10/2005 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

After two days spent talking shop with members of Intel's marketing team and the engineers behind their products, two new guiding philosophies seem to be present at Intel: 1) "Dual-core for Eve...

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Tribune Media Services Press Release

Posted by: Jim_ on: 05/17/2005 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Open Source Media Service Offers Richer Information, Innovative Model (Chicago, IL) ñ Tribune Media Services (TMS) and TechnoVera, Inc. announced an agreement to offer enhanced TV listings and movi...

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MythTV Gets Ready for the Open-Market!

Posted by: Jim_ on: 05/15/2005 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

After last month's article on Home Theater PC Platforms, I thought I'd talk about each one in a bit more depth as time goes by, starting with MythTV. Three months after John C. Dvorak said "I ...

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Home Theatre PC Guide

Posted by: Jim_ on: 04/02/2005 06:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

When I was a kid, one of the exciting times in our household was when a birthday or a special occasion would come around and my father would rent a VCR from the local movie store along wit...

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Shuttle SB77G5

Posted by: Jim_ on: 01/15/2005 06:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Remember the days when Small Form-Factor PCs (SFFs) were new to the market? Boy, those were exciting times, weren't they? We had so much to discuss about these tiny boxes that constructin...

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Supermicro's Super Quiet Technology

Posted by: Jim_ on: 01/27/2005 06:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Table of ContentsPage 1: IntroductionPage 2: Hardware: Design DecisionsPage 3: Demand-Based SwitchingOver the past several years in the hardware industry there have been several trends. Init...

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Intel's 900-Series Chipsets: PCI-Express and LGA775

Posted by: Cory on: 08/13/2004 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

In the PC industry, some technologies have been with us for a long time. The PCI bus is one of those. While not quite as venerable, the AGP bus and DDR memory have also been around for quite some tim...

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Iwill Akihabara Event

Posted by: Hooz on: 09/18/2004 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Saturday, 11th of September, 2004, Iwill staged a demonstration of their new workstation, small form factor, and server class hardware at the Linux†Cafe / CaffȆPronto in Akihabara. Lots...

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Silverstone TJ05-ST

Posted by: Jim_ on: 11/11/2004 06:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Over the last couple of years, it's clear one of the main focuses in our industry has been making the PC smaller and more attractive. Basically bridging the gap between PC and appliance. T...

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Intel's Nocona Xeon / Supermicro SuperServer 7044A-82R

Posted by: Jim_ on: 08/21/2004 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

While reviewing Intel's last two Xeon processors, one thing I continually stressed was Intel's need to increase the speed of the front-side bus (FSB). With two physical and four logical...

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Supermicro SuperServer 6013A-TB

Posted by: Hooz on: 06/24/2004 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

A few weeks ago I was contacted by an old buddy (and forum/IRC regular), Rich, who was looking for some advice. Rich is starting a rather large LAN gaming center and was in need of a pair of pretty ...

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Soltek EQ3401A

Posted by: Jim_ on: 06/23/2004 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Whenever we take a look at a new SFF system, I realize how mainstream these things are now adays by the level of difficulty experienced when attempting to come up with an original introductio...

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2CPU Q&A #1

Posted by: Forge on: 05/10/2004 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

2CPU Q&A #1 Ok, first things first, a little disclaiming is in order. This is all just my take on things, I'm bound to be wrong sooner or later (don't use this Q&A to justify any 10K$+ ...

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Quadro FX 1100

Posted by: Forge on: 04/09/2004 05:00 AM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Click for the full image gallery! I'm sure all of you are intimately familiar with Nvidia's Quadro line and its history but just in case you aren't, I'll run it down. Rewind the...

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