While most of the attention from Gigabyte over recent months has been on new motherboards for the 3rd generation AMD Ryzen platform, the company has been quietly working on boards for the upcoming Intel Xeon server platform too. To coincide with the recent announcement from Intel regarding new Xeon E-2200 …
Read More »Intel announce Xeon E-2200 processors featuring up to eight cores and 5.0 GHz
An area which Intel still has a vast share of the market is with server CPUs – the company has announced that the new Xeon E-2200 processors are available now for entry-level servers. Intel’s Xeon E-2200 is designed to deliver essential performance for businesses, with advanced security features for cloud-based …
Read More »Intel announce new Xeon W-2200 series processors
Intel has announced a new Xeon W-2200 series to join the Cascade Lake-X HEDT line-up for 2019. The Xeon W-2200 series will offer lower performance options compared to some Cascade Lake-X processors, with quad-core CPUs available. The top four Xeon W-2200 processors will effectively share the same characteristics as Cascade …
Read More »AMD EPYC 7000 lineup details leak alongside some performance comparisons against Intel Xeon
It looks like we have an early idea of when to expect AMD’s new EPYC processors, alongside some performance comparisons to various Intel counterparts. This week, AMD’s press deck for the EPYC 7000 series leaked, showing that the launch is planned for the 20th of June, alongside various headline features …
Read More »Report claims Apple is planning a Xeon powered iMac with ECC RAM
Earlier this year, Apple began sharing its plans for the future of its desktop systems. The next big Mac Pro refresh is coming in 2018 but in the meantime, Apple is said to be planning a ‘pro-grade’ iMac all-in-one for release this year. Now reports this week claim to give …
Read More »KitGuru Complete Guide to PC Workstations – Part 3
In the second part of this series, we presented some initial tests to illustrate how CPU and graphics can affect different types of performance in a PC workstation. In this third part, we focus down on one particular, industry-standard benchmark that puts a workstation through a range of tests with …
Read More »KitGuru Complete Guide to PC Workstations – Part 2
As we explained in our introduction to this series, workstations are considerably more than just powerful PCs. Brute performance may be the basis of a system you intend to use for high-end desktop computing tasks like 3D animation, CAD/CAM, engineering and product design. But there is much more to a …
Read More »Release of Mac Pro did not help Apple to sell record amount of Macs
Although Apple Mac Pro workstations have been in short supply for over five months after the launch and customers have to wait weeks to get one, it does not look like the popularity of the new cylindrical desktop was really overhelming in Q1 2014: it did not catalyse record sales …
Read More »Apple Mac Pro shipments estimates stretched to 5-6 weeks
Apple has quietly delayed mass availability of its premium desktop again. At present the company offers to pre-order the new Mac Pro and get it in five or six weeks from now, sometimes in May. It looks like more than four months after the official launch date, Apple still cannot …
Read More »OMG (Part 2): Proper scientists optimise the set up for EVGA SR2
Serious speed is something you build up slowly. Especially when the mainboard presents you with more options than Subway has fillings for its 12″ sub. For the Oh My God series, we’ve been making adjustments, monitoring progress, up-ing the ante, checking for stability and then repeating all over again. For those with …
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