Gigabyte GA-7PESH1 powered by 2x Xeon E5 2690 under real World workloads @ ocaholic

Unless you are building a custom dual processor workstation or what the power of the EVGA SR Series there is little chance you would ever use (or need) a dual processor system.  Modern processors are just "too" powerful and mobo makers were shy to design the motherboards.

Because of this many people are unaware that Xeon processors exist nor that they have slighly different specs from the mainstream desktop models.  Are they better? Do they suck? only Intel knows for sure.

Instead of an enthusiast motherboard, this time we will look at a workstation motherboard. Meanwhile it is not a entry level motherboard, Gigabyte provided us with their latest high end motherboard which features up to 512 GB of DDR3 memory running at 1600 MHz, two 8 core / 16 threads processor, a high end LSI SAS controller and more. This time we will not only review the motherboard but also benchmark this dual Xeon Octocore setup under real world workloads/situations. Feel the power!

It is nice to see Gigabyte building dual processor systems again, I might have to get one of these for myself.

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