You wouldn’t know it by looking at it but a mini ITX system can pack almost as much processing power as a full-sized desktop PC but it’s not all about number crunching, sometimes you just need an energy-efficient machine that can serve some files. The Chenboro ES34169 mITX Server Case comfortably fits your choice of […]
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As awesome as it is to get your media files, or any file, accessible all around your house most retail solutions will have you dropping quite a bit of cash for something with very little storage. The VIA ARTiGO A2000 barebones kit will get you up and running quickly, you’ll just have to supply it […]
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A processor’s Level 3 cache is a neat trick in order to improve a system’s performance. With more cores being piled on to processors a unified cache would be difficult to manage given that each core needs access to an…
Read more Intel Becton / Nehalem EX Sports Ring Bus, insane cache bandwidth
AMD has been a little busy working on their upcoming 12 core "Magny-Cours" server chip which should have some IT folks salivating at the prospects. They may just be a little further along than most think as they showed off…
Read more AMD Shows Off 48 core Magny-Cours Server
The clock speed race has been over for a few years now as both AMD and Intel are focusing their efforts on making multi-core chips and specialized instruction sets to further improve performance and, in some instances, lower power consumption.InfoWorld…
Read more AMD's "Magny-Cours" Drops the Clock-Rate, Ups the Core Count
The general rule of thumb has been that the more cores you add to a processor the more energy it will use up, just don’t clue AMD in on that fact. The company has released a batch of four…
Read more AMD Goes Energy Friendly With Their Six-Core Opterons
AMD’s processors aren’t the type of performance champs you’ve come to expect, on the workstation and server front things tend to get a bit stranger.People in the market for new servers are looking beyond rendering speeds and are focusing…
It’s not that we consider you lazy or anything like that but have you put any thought into your Service Pack 2 upgrade planning for the copies of Microsoft’s Vista and Windows Server 2008 installed on your work or home…
There’s something to be said about a new CPU that can perform faster than its predecessor all within the same thermal envelope and, thankfully, is capable of “socketing” into place so you can keep your old hardware.AMD’s upcoming 6-core “Istanbul”…
Read more AMD Istanbul Peformance Video, 6-Cores Are In Fact Speedy
AMD is setting itself up for a June launch of its next CPU. The chip code named “Istanbul” will fall into its Opteron lineup of workstation and server processors. Given its 6 core design and virtualization focused tweaks it’ll…
After dropping flash drives into its Sun Storage 7000 storage arrays, Sun is now eyeing “Flash Driven” rack and blade application servers for the fast performing and energy efficient data storage technology. Sure, they cost more than servers with…
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