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Intel Xeon L5640 60w Dual Six Core Processor Benchmarks and Review

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:14:45 +0000

Today it is time to look at a twelve core, twenty-four thread powerhouse of a system. After looking at the low-cost Westmere-EP based dual Intel Xeon E5606 configuration and finding it to be a power sipping dual-CPU setup, I noted that the E5606 is essentially a six core die with two cores that likely did [...] Related posts:

ASRock 350M1 Motherboard Review with AMD Brazos E-350 APU mITX

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:14:44 +0000

The ASRock 350M1 is one of the least expensive AMD Zacate platforms available today. Packing an AMD E-350 APU in its mini-ITX form factor the ASRock for about $110 requires only a power supply, enclosure and RAM to get going. Previously, the Fusion E-350 APU was benchmarked using this platform so this review will be [...] Related posts:

AMD Zacate E-350 1.6GHz Fusion APU Brazos Benchmarks and Review

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:14:44 +0000

AMD’s Zacate E-350 is the culmination of the AMD-ATI merger’s synergy expectations. AMD rocked the press when it shared its vision of a unified CPU and GPU to attack at the heart of Intel’s GPU market dominance. Several years and chief executives later, that vision has been put into a shipping product, only about a [...] Related posts:

Intel’s Atom D425 and D525 Announcement – STH’s View

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:35:28 +0000

Yesterday Intel announced the Atom D425 and D525 platforms targeted for small storage servers. Both chips are 1.8GHz parts with Hyper-Threading. The Atom D425 is a single core with 512KB of cache (10w TDP) and the Atom D525 (13w TDP) being the dual core chip with 1MB of L2 cache. The chips support both the [...] Related posts:

ZOTAC NM10-A-E Motherboard Review with Atom Dual-Core D510

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:04:05 +0000

As one would gather from my previous Intel Atom D510 and NM10 post, I am not the biggest fan of the current D510 Atom platform with NM10 chipset. ZOTAC, to its credit, did take a rather mediocre platform and build a solid board around it. The most probable use case is a streaming media HTPC (non h.264) to a legacy 720p display. The nice thing about the ZOTAC offering is that it has quite a few expansion options for a D510/ NM10 based system, and it is ready to go out of the box. Related posts:

Intel Atom D510 Review and Comparison to N330-ION

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:28:43 +0000

Out with the old and in with the new, but worse platform. I have been wondering about the Intel Atom D510 performance for quite a while now alongside the NM10 chipset. It is essentially Intel’s upgrade to the venerable dual-core Intel Atom N330. With the consolidation of features to the D510 and NM10 Intel was [...] Related posts:

Intel Core i3-530 and Supermicro X8SIL-F Power Consumption (plus Xeon X3440)

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 24 May 2010 06:00:39 +0000

To update to my review of the Supermicro X8SIL-F, I took some Kill-A-Watt power consumption numbers with the Supermicro X8SIL-F to answer a few questions regarding power consumption with real server hardware compared to consumer-level hardware. Below I am focusing on idle power consumption as with the Intel Core i3-530, Xeon X3440, and other LGA [...] Related posts:

Intel Core i5-650 v. Atom N330/ NVIDA ION Review

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:22:58 +0000

Intel’s Clarkdale and H55/ H57 platforms are quite intriguing for several reasons. First, the performance is fairly good starting at 2.93ghz, and with hyperthreading, it is possible to get closer to a quad core performance in some tasks where multiple cores do well, such as video encoding. A second aspect is that Intel moved the [...] Related posts:

Low Power Core i5-650 Server

Patrick Kennedy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:18:18 +0000

As I posted previously, the new Clarkdale based chips (or Intel’s 2010 Core line-up) are quite nice chips. Speed wise, they are similar in performance to the venerable Core 2 Quad Q6600 (often faster) yet come equipped with integrated graphics and a much refined process (32nm on the CPU core for the i3/i5′s and 65nm [...] Related posts: