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Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

...wireless card in your laptop — it uses a standard interface called Mini PCI Express. Just be aware of a gotcha: some vendors like HP will... Read more

21 April, 2012 by Craig Simms
Fujitsu Primergy RX100 S7 Review

Fujitsu Primergy RX100 S7 Review

This is a well-built 1U server which, if correctly specified with the latest Xeon E3-1200 processor and other options, will have no problem living up to its positioning as an entry-level virtualisation platform. Read more

20 January, 2012 by Alan Stevens
Xirrus XR-4000 Wireless Array

Xirrus XR-4000 Wireless Array

...total Wi-Fi bandwidth of 2.4Gbps. These plug into 2.5Gbps PCI Express slots on the controller board, whose central element is a Cavium... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Charles McLellan
Dell PowerEdge R815

Dell PowerEdge R815

The first of the big-name vendors to deliver a server based on AMD's new 16-core Opteron 6200 series (Interlagos) processors, Dell has stolen a march on the competition with an affordable yet highly scalable 2U platform offering all the usual PowerEdge trimmings. Read more

14 November, 2011 by Alan Stevens
HP ProLiant DL360 G7

HP ProLiant DL360 G7

The seventh generation of HP's compact ProLiant DL360 sees this best-selling 1U rack workhorse extensively revamped to extract even more in terms of scalability, availability and reliability. Read more

11 October, 2011 by Alan Stevens
AMD A8-3850

AMD A8-3850

We recommend the AMD A8-3850 to mainstream desktop PC users in search of capable multithreaded application performance and gaming power. Read more

4 July, 2011 by Rich Brown
Dell PowerEdge R310

Dell PowerEdge R310

Built to a price, Dell's PowerEdge R310 is limited in terms of scalability, but can be configured to handle a wide range small business and departmental server workloads without breaking the bank. Read more

7 January, 2011 by Alan Stevens
Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

...are also available, but they're expensive For expansion, there are two PCI Express 2.0 x4 slots and one x16 slot free. The retaining... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Charles McLellan
Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

...and that's just the start: "We can do multiple lanes, like PCI Express, and run two lanes with four fibres and get 20Gbps. We... Read more

5 August, 2010 by Mary Branscombe

Xeon E5 - nearly here...

...need to wait for adapters that can take advantage of the new PCI Express 3.0 technology delivered by the Xeon E5. When that happens... Read more

5 March, 2012

CES 2012: OWC Jupiter miniSAS and 480GB PCIe RAID

...together. The mini-SAS connector can plug in to a mini-SAS PCI Express card in a Mac Pro or PC server, or you can... Read more

19 January, 2012

XQD card prepares to succeed CompactFlash

...project the CompactFlash Association announced last year. The new cards use the PCI Express data pathway technology developed first for PCs to reach 2.5... Read more

8 December, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
System Analyser 5.3x

System Analyser 5.3x

...Keyboard, IEEE 1284, Modem, Fax, ISDN, Sound, ASPI/CAM, SCSI, DMI, PCI, PCI Express, PCMCIA, Plug and Play, APM, ESCD, IRQ, DMA, CMOS, Y2K, It... Read more

30 November, 2011

Fusion-io updates flagship ioDrive flash cards

...Fusion-io has unveiled a new generation of PCI-Express flash cards that can plug into servers to boost the performance... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

System x gets Xeon E3

...just as on the tower. The 1U rack server has just two PCI Express slots for further expansion, while the tower has four. Both models... Read more

30 September, 2011

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