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Users looking to build their own dual EPYC workstation or system, using completely off-the-shelf components, do not have a lot of options. Users can buy most of the CPUs at retail or at OEM, as well as memory, a chassis, power supplies, coolers, add-in cards. But the one item where there isn’t a lot of competition for these sorts of builds is in the motherboard. Unless you go down the route of buying a server on rails with a motherboard already fitted, there are very limited dual EPYC motherboard options for users to just purchase. So few in fact, that there are only two, both from Supermicro, and both are called the H11DSi. One variant has gigabit Ethernet, the other has 10 gigabit Ethernet.
The ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Motherboard Review: From Naples to Rome
It's no secret that AMD is looking to carve out a bigger share in the server market with their enterprise EPYC processors, and much fanfare has been made about...
35 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/20/2020The GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0 Motherboard Review: EPYC with Dual 10G
The workstation and server markets are big business for not only chip manufacturers such as Intel and AMD, but for motherboard vendors too. Since AMD's introduction of its Zen-based...
37 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/25/2020Vulnerability in AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization for EPYC: Update Now to Build 22
One of the key elements of building a processor is that designing a secure product involves reducing the ‘attack surface’ as much as possible: the fewer ways an attack...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/26/2019An Interview with AMD’s Forrest Norrod: Naples, Rome, Milan, & Genoa
There’s no getting away from the fact that AMD’s big revenue potential exists in the server space. While the glitz and the glamor is all about the Ryzen, the...
49 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/24/2019AMD Launches High-Frequency EPYC 7371 Processor
AMD has announced its new high-frequency EPYC 7371 processor designed for applications that benefit from high clocks. The CPU has 16 cores and is aimed at tasks like electronic...
23 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018Sizing Up Servers: Intel's Skylake-SP Xeon versus AMD's EPYC 7000 - The Server CPU Battle of the Decade?
This morning kicks off a very interesting time in the world of server-grade CPUs. Officially launching today is Intel's latest generation of Xeon processors, based on the "Skylake-SP" architecture...
219 by Johan De Gelas & Ian Cutress on 7/11/2017Microsoft Details Project Olympus Open Compute Standard
Today, at the 2017 Open Compute Project U.S. Summit, Microsoft unveiled some significant announcements around their hyperscale cloud hardware design, which they first announced in November as Project Olympus...
65 by Brett Howse on 3/8/2017AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: Coming in Q2
For users keeping track of AMD’s rollout of its new Zen microarchitecture, stage one was the launch of Ryzen, its new desktop-oriented product line last week. Stage three is...
91 by Ian Cutress on 3/7/2017Making AMD Tick: A Very Zen Interview with Dr. Lisa Su, CEO
AMD held a Tech Day a week before the launch of Zen to go over the details of of the new Ryzen product with the technology press. As part...
59 by Ian Cutress on 3/2/2017The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 41: Let's Talk Server, with Patrick Kennedy
While in San Francisco for AMD’s Ryzen Tech Day, I had a chance to catch up with a good friend by the name of Patrick Kennedy, who runs the...
8 by Ian Cutress on 2/28/2017AMD Gives More Zen Details: Ryzen, 3.4 GHz+, NVMe, Neural Net Prediction, & 25 MHz Boost Steps
In the eternal battle to drive more details out of AMD ahead of the full launch of its new Zen microarchitecture based CPUs, today AMD is lifting the lid...
170 by Ian Cutress on 12/13/2016The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 37: IDF 2016, Alloy, Joule, Broxton, and AMD Zen
Today’s podcast covers the show known as the Intel Developer Forum, or IDF for short. IDF is an annual event focusing on new Intel technologies and product visions, showcasing...
13 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2016Early AMD Zen Server CPU and Motherboard Details: Codename ‘Naples’, 32-cores, Dual Socket Platforms, Q2 2017
At the AMD Zen microarchitecture announcement event yesterday, the lid was lifted on some of the details of AMD’s server platform. The 32-core CPU, codename Naples, will feature simultaneous...
65 by Ian Cutress on 8/18/2016