Multi socket servers have been around since the dawn of enterprise computing. The market and technology has matured into 2-socket x86 and multi core highly integrated processors. In this piece, I hope ...

(Props to Ciconia, in another thread. I thought it deserved its own one.) I've always thought that it didn't matter to a ESXi VMs performance whether you assigned, say, one socket with two cores or ...

I'm considering buying a server board that has two CPU sockets, but I don't want to afford both CPUs right now. Is that a problem? Can I just add in the other CPU later like adding extra memory DIMMs?

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A new leak suggests Intel Comet Lake will pack up to 10 cores and a 125W TDP in a new LGA1200 socket. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...

Page 9: F.E.A.R.: Low and High Resolutions Page 10: Power Consumption Page 11: Our Summary and Conclusion Hot on the heals of the holiday weekend, Intel is launching a new flagship quad-core processor ...

Trying to keep track of Intel's ever-changing roadmap is no easy task, but if you are curious what the Santa Clara chipmaker has in store for the immediate future, newly leaked slides may provide some ...