Because the KGN70M1 is not a chassis designed with risers in mind, instead utilizing half-height expansion cards, you can see that the rear panel has enough room for six shorter peripheral devices. Often, chassis employing side-by-side power supplies leave room for this exact sort of expansion scheme. Again, this is a fairly standard setup.
Unfortunately, our review unit was missing its metal I/O shield, and we didn't have a spare to match Tyan's S7053 motherboard. So, that space is uncovered.
The rear-panel reveals that the S7053 includes legacy VGA and serial ports in case you need to attach a serial device or monitor into the server. Although KVM-over-IP is fairly widely accepted at this point, the possibility exists that you'll need to make a physical connection at some point instead. Next to those ports, you find two stacks that include a pair of USB ports and an 8P8C connector attached to an Intel gigabit Ethernet controller. Another pair of gigabit-capable connectors sits on the far-right side of the motherboard's integrated I/O.
Tyan really goes the extra mile here in providing four USB ports, rather than the more common pair. If you're setting up a server using a VGA monitor, mouse, and keyboard, that typically leaves little additional connectivity for a driver-laden USB thumb drive, for example.
All four 8P8C female jacks are driven by an on-board Intel I350-AM4 network controller, which is one of the company's newer-generation chipsets.
The board itself features six PCIe 3.0-capable expansion slots, four of which are eight-lanes wide, and two of which offer 16 lanes of connectivity. Tyan uses open-ended x8 connectors, which we wish that more motherboard vendors would do as well. The benefit of an open-ended slot is that they accept x16 devices as well at half-bandwidth, so long as they clear other components along their path.
You can see near the edge of the board that Tyan is using Intel's Patsburg-A (C602) PCH. So, you find two SATA 6Gb/s ports, along with four SATA 3Gb/s connectors derived from the Intel core logic. Tyan also includes an LSI SAS 2308 RAID controller with support for standard RAID levels without parity, which we'd expect from a controller with no associated battery or NAND-backed memory. Because our review guidelines specifically requested vendors not to send motherboards with on-board third-party storage controllers, we won't go into detail on this feature except to mention that the kit comes wired to utilize LSI's controller with the KGN70M1 2U chassis.
Both CPU interfaces are set up for the standard LGA 2011 mounting pattern, which is similar to the LGA 1366 layout. Each processor and its associated memory is placed in-line, but slightly offset (again, standard for dual-socket server motherboards). There are eight DDR3 DIMM slots per CPU, yielding a maximum memory configuration of 128 GB using unbuffered ECC DDR3 memory, 256 GB of registered ECC DDR3 memory, or 512 GB using LR-DIMMs (load-reduced DIMMs).
- Three 2P Xeon E5-2600 Platforms Compared: Intel, Supermicro, And Tyan
- The Rules, Contenders, And Test Setup
- Supermicro 6027R-N3RF4+: Layout And Overview
- Supermicro 6027R-N3RF4+: Layout And Overview, Continued
- Supermicro 6027R-N3RF4+: Management Features And Serviceability
- Tyan GN70-K7053: Layout And Overview
- Tyan GN70-K7053: Layout And Overview, Continued
- Tyan GN70-K7053: Management Features And Serviceability
- Intel R2208GZ4GC: Layout And Overview
- Intel R2208GZ4GC: Layout And Overview, Continued
- Intel R2208GZ4GC: Management Features And Serviceability
- Pricing, Warranty, And Support Comparison
- Benchmark Results: Adobe CS 5, 3ds Max, And Cinebench
- Benchmark Results: Compiling, Folding, And Euler
- Power Consumption And Noise Comparison
- Whose 2U Server System For Xeon E5 Is Best?




I agree. Just reduce it a little bit but don't make it too hard to see
Usually? The E5s absolutely crush AMD's best offerings. AMD's top of the line server chips are about equal in performance to Intel's last generation of chips, which are now more than two years old. It's even more lopsided than Sandy Bridge vs. Bulldozer.
As an AMD fan, I wish we could. But while Magny-Cours was competitive with the last gen Xeons, AMD doesn't really have anything that stacks up against the E5. In pretty much every workload, E5 dominates the 62xx or the 61xx series by 30-50%. The E5 is even price competitive at this point.
We'll just have to see how Piledriver does.
Having said that I would suggest you include expected PPD for the given TPF since that is what folders look at when deciding on hardware. Or you could just devote 48 hours from each machine to generate actual results for F@H and donate those points to your F@H team (yes Tom's has a team [40051] and visibility is our biggest problem).
The issue is that other tech sites promote their teams. We do not have a promotive site. Even while mentioning F@H, some people do not agree with it or will never want to participate. It is a mentality. However, it is a choice!
F@H on such a monster? Do the math and you'll see that just after one year of 24/7 operation you would rack up over 3 billion points, putting you in the top 10 for teams and no.1 spot for single user.
That's assuming, of course, that you've forked out $20k for your monthly power bill to run that fully-stocked 42U rack and paid $240k to your utility company for the entire year. Then there's the cost of the hardware itself - around $26k for each 2U server, or around a cool $600,000.
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all powerful server are expensive now.
I believe market for cheap but powerful server are big, and no one is working on this area.
I know the profit is not big, but by big quantity it mean big money too
The point is that memory is directly connected to 1 CPU only. Adding a 2nd CPU doubles aggregate bandwidth, but could actually hurt performance, if the software isn't written to carefully to localize data and manage affinity between threads & CPUs.
great work.
That is something that we are looking at. This was more of a look at what is out there for barebones kits. I totally agree that these types of comparisons would be great.
That is already done (but as more of a work around) build a standard PC.
Many high end gaming motherboards work well in a server environment, and can easily handle a high traffic website.
Most web hosting does not need a super powerful server (which is why virtualization is so popular). If you are running a relatively small business and are not doing anything that is hugely CPU bound (eg, rendering) then you can save a bit of money with a decent desktop PC.