VMmark Scores Investigated: should VMmark be part of your hardware decisions?
VMmark is supposedly the most important industry standard benchmark today. We investigate the confusing number of different Xeon 5570 VMmark scores and try to understand how relevant VMmark is...
23 by on 5/8/2009
The Best Server CPUs part 2: the Intel "Nehalem" Xeon X5570
Better hardware virtualization, a vastly improved server platform, and eight logical cores per CPU: it's no secret that the Xeon "Nehalem" X5570 is the Formula One car among the...
44 by on 3/30/2009
SSD versus Enterprise SAS and SATA disks
We compare RAID configurations of up to 16 SATA drives, up to eight SAS drives, and up to eight Intel X25-E SLC SSDs in different situations and try to...
67 by on 3/20/2009
The Best Server CPUs Compared, Part 1
This article is different from the previous ones, as we have changed the methodology we use to evaluate a server CPU. Read on, and find out why we feel...
29 by on 12/22/2008
Intel Xeon 7460: Six Cores to Bulldoze Opteron
Despite the huge die size and 1.9 billion (!) transistors, the six-core Xeon 74xx is a wallflower, for both the public as Intel's marketing. If you've invested in a...
36 by on 9/23/2008
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