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Agree 100% with your M.2 assertion. M.2 seems pointless for a desktop. The same NVMe connections that servers use would be much more useful for a workstation,...

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My interest in ATX is that I like reasonably sized desktop workstations. I don't care for the E-ATX monster cases needed for a dual socket board....

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Familiar with layers, it does not solve the problem of top side real estate however. See above.


The fact is, installing seven single-slot...

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1. That asus board is not ATX size. It's larger CEB size.
2. It has no M.2 slot
3. It has no SAS controller
4. It has no BMC controller...

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Lolwhat? The Apple store is that way <----- check out that new iMac, so shiny!...

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Why would you want that? Sounds like a truly terrible idea and waste of everyone's money....

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Simple; Board real estate. It's standard desktop peecee ATX size, not E-ATX. The SP3 socket is physically large. And it has *eight* DIMM slots. Plus M.2....

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It's an impressive chip for sure, essentially the power of two Skylake Xeons in a single chip, and with more memory bandwidth and more I/O bandwidth....

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I don't think Delta sells retail products in the US. They do make many OE power supplies for Dell, HP, IBM servers, and have a reputation for good quality....

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The Samsung 960 is newer then 950, yes, but most retailers are still carrying the 950 alongside it as a lower cost option. I wouldn't call the 950 "obsolete"....

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Now that Linux has escaped the server room and has found its way into all kinds of embedded devices and consumer devices, things like graphics, sound,...

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MS Office 2013 works really well in Crossover. The Crossover folks take care of the per-app tweaking, and the installer, so the end user experience is...

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I stopped using it years ago, partly because it had become bloated and slow compared with Chrome, but also because of their SJW infection and subsequent...

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So rather than a desktop where everything is neatly contained in a box, you want a tangled spaghetti octopus of cables, devices, and power bricks. Whatever...

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Very interesting, awesome benchmarks Michael. It seems there's no practical difference between PCIe 2.0 vs. 3.0, at least with today's graphics cards...

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Yes you're right, I stand corrected. In the HPC world, the workloads can certainly vary wildly in terms of compute vs. I/O requirements. When I was building...

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Sounds like someone doesn't know his history, and isn't familiar with modern enterprise computing. It's not uncommon to have multiple 10Gb ethernet cards,...

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A single PCI-E 1x slot is fine for xeon-phi or GPU compute. Google for "bitcoin rig" to see real world examples. GPU on a 1x PCI-E slot performs...

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^ Weak sauce. I just sold my GTX Titan and replaced it with an Rx 480. I couldn't be happier. Everything "just works" with this Rx 480 and...

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False. ext4 is fully supported on RHEL 7. They switched to XFS as the default, but ext4 has not been deprecated. Can you articulate using technical terms,...