Posts Tagged ‘amd’
AMD Opteron 3200 Series – Where did they go?
Where in the world is the AMD Operon 3200 series? Back on 20 May 2012 I did a quick news piece about the AMD Opteorn 3200 series launch, something I was super excited about at the time. Here’s the thing, Intel is complete...
Intel Centerton Atom Based 6w Cloud CPU – Battling ARM
At Intel Developers Forum (IDF) in Beijing Intel announced its new Centerton Atom SoC to combat the looming threat of ARM architectures in for cloud applications. HP, Dell and others have already announced plans to offer ARM...
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 Update: Power Consumption & Folding@Home
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 t...
AMD Opteron 6128: Multi-socket platform bargain Xeon alternative
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 E5-2...
Intel Pentium G630 65w Dual Core CPU Benchmarks and Review
I have a fairly strong opinion that Intel’s LGA1155 platform has a stronger set of single processor server motherboards than AMD. I actually hope the new Socket AM3+ based Opteron 3000 series will change this in the near ...
AMD’s New Bulldozer based Interlagos and Valencia CPUs
One thing that I have been looking forward to in 2011 is AMD’s Bulldozer architecture in the server space. AMD recently released its next-generation, Bulldozer based Interlagos and Valencia CPUs. Interlagos is the success...
Mid-range DIY Storage Server Buyer’s Guide, October 2011
This mid-range guide was originally intended to have an AMD Bulldozer based build and an Intel E3 series based build. I have been playing quite a bit with the Bulldozer CPUs and frankly, it is very difficult to do at this poi...
AMD 16-Core Interlagos Opteron 6200 Series Shipping
AMD finally announced that it is shipping its Bulldozer-based Interlagos CPUs to vendors through a press release. One may have missed the short press release, especially given that AMD still only lists the Opteron 6100 series M...
AMD Interlagos Motherboards Quick Note on 1600MHz RAM Compatibility
This is a super quick note of a conversation I heard at a local Silicon Valley food spot this weekend. From what I overheard it appears that, at least for the 4P AMD Interlagos motherboards, some vendors will re-spin their PCBs...
Intel vPro to the Atom: Only a matter of time
As some readers know, a big reason for the slow content on the site is that I am busy writing a big piece on Intel vPro technology for a very big technology review site. As part of this, one thing I realized is that Intel’...
