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For this system, we weren’t looking for an enthusiast product with lots of overclocking margin, sophisticated voltage regulators, impressive cooling solutions, or fancy PCB colors. Instead, our goal was to find a workhorse that would provide maximum interface flexibility while also working for a long time, as we intend to keep the configuration for at least a few years.
These requirements meant that the system had to be a state-of-the-art product, suitable for running notebook, desktop, and professional products for workstations and servers. And although PCI Express has been replacing the parallel 64-bit PCI-X standard on servers (a process that should accelerate through roughly the end of this year), they may still require PCI-X slots for enterprise controller testing. We also wanted to use a system whose integrated storage controller would be suitable for running both hard drives and SSDs. The only choice was Intel’s X58 platform with the ICH10R southbridge.
We selected Supermicro’s X8SAX workstation board, which is a standard ATX model, but comes in an unusual layout: the DIMM sockets are located on top of the board, which is preferred in servers, as it allows easy ventilation. You’ll also notice that other components are also aligned the same way—for example, the PCI-X bridge and MCH heat sinks, the power connector and most of the other connectors. The board was designed for Core i7 processors or Intel’s Xeon 3500- and 5500-series chips, which are also based on the Nehalem architecture. Using 4 GB DDR3 DIMMs, you can reach a total memory capacity of 24 GB; unbuffered DDR3-800, 1066, and 1333 memory is supported.
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Two Intel 82547L controllers provide dual Gigabit Ethernet connections. In addition to that, this board’s connector panel provides as many as eight USB 2.0 ports that can be used out of the box, and two additional headers can provide four more ports should you need them. The board is based on the ICH10R southbridge and hence provides six AHCI SATA/300 ports with NCQ support and one 32-bit PCI 2.3 slot. The X58 chipset supports PCI Express connectivity. Supermicro implements two fully featured x16 PCI Express 2.0 slots and one x4 slot. In addition to this, there is a PXH (PCI-X hub) available that powers the two 64-bit PCI-X 100/133 MHz slots for legacy workstation/server cards.
You will find more information on this motherboard on the Supermicro Web site:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8SAX.cfm
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These charts are a disaster. The same exact label is used to denote multiple drives. E.g., Western Digital Raptor or Seagate 7200.11 are each repeated over a half dozen times on each chart. Trying to find a specific model requires you to follow the product link over and over again on each chart. I gave up, still not sure if the one I was interested in is even listed.....
woot charts ! now we need gpu ones ( i dont mind waiting til Q2 is over )
Loving the reinstatement of the 'article index' drop down menu... But I think someone needs to smooth out the rough edges. Minor points, but ones I will make nonetheless.
First, the dimensions are such that you have vertical AND horizontal scroll... kinda annoying.
Second, the 'index button' width is slightly smaller than the actual drop down menu that appears. So if you click the down arrow and move your cursor directly down (which because of the width issue, is not over the drop down menu) it deselects the index and it disappears. ARGGHHH
These charts are a disaster. The same exact label is used to denote multiple drives. E.g., Western Digital Raptor or Seagate 7200.11 are each repeated over a half dozen times on each chart. Trying to find a specific model requires you to follow the product link over and over again on each chart. I gave up, still not sure if the one I was interested in is even listed.....
He's right, and if I select WD and Samsung as filters, and then choose a benchmark, I get all the HDD listed and i have to choose my filters every time I select a benchmark. The old chart system before the site was "pimped" was way better then this.
The charts are bad, but the last version was bad too. The one before that was fine though.
I said we'd get harddrive review this week and lo and behold pappa was right.
I like the drop down menu now... Its much faster :-)
I like the drop down menu now... Its much faster :-)
ye but I'd gladly trade the menu for the old layout with avatars and less gray on gray.
Yay! drop down menu is back!
Yes but we were told we'd have our avatars back?i don't see them ,do you?
yeah avatars would be nice to help break up the monotonous comment section. its just one big blob of text.
WHAT HAPPENED TO OCZ DRIVES!!! Did Intel slip some money under the table?
Yes but we were told we'd have our avatars back?i don't see them ,do you?
Jane said there was a chance, but she didn't promise.
there has to be a better way to do this. all i care about is real world performance. these charts are useless.
The charts are useless if you don't know what you need. Yes. But they wouldn't be useless to most of us if we could see which model was performing how well. I know what I need to care most about is average read speed on all my drives except the system one, where access time is relevant as well.
Ditto on the useless chart theme!!!
No numbers for Intel power consumption!???? what a joke. C'mon Tom's surely you can do better.
I don't get two things.
1. If this is a test bed then shouldn't you be using the fastest CPU available to you? Also I believe the i920 has a 4.8GT/s, so it can be a limiting factor when you are testing other components.
2. Why are you not including the Intel SSD's They have been around for a while and they are still missing from your SSD charts.
No Intel SSD numbers at all! that's got to be the biggest oversight in the history of the universe.