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  • Asus Z9PE-D16 Review: Part Two

    Here is the follow-up to our initial review of the Asus Z9PE-D16 motherboard!

     

     

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  • Asus Z9PE-D16 review: Part One

    Up for review today we have one of Asus’ dual-socket-2011 server motherboards – the Z9PE-D16. Hit the break to find out what it’s all about and why you might care about it even if you don’t need to run two CPUs…

     

     

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  • Teaser: Asus Z9PE-D16

     

    Our last server build featured one of these boards; we took the time to take quite a lot of photos and do a full-write up of it, which should be ready soon! In the meanwhile:

     

  • Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe not recognising IBM M1015

     

    We had a customer who installed a M1015 into their workstation and it wouldn’t recognise the card at all during the boot process; the board was still on the shipping BIOS 0906, and the issue was resolved by updating to the most current BIOS (1401 at the time of writing). After updating the BIOS the card was recognised during the boot process as normal.

  • Asus 7850 Direct CU II 2GB review

    This graphics card has grown to be a staple in our workstation and gaming builds; today we have a mini-review of why you might want to consider including on in your own build.

     

     

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  • Teaser: New graphics cards

    We’ve got a mini-review of a certain AMD Pitcairn-based graphics card coming up soon. In the meantime, here’s a couple of teaser shots!

     

     

     

    More to come – including the review – soon!

  • BIOS update: Asus P9X79 WS

    Asus have released BIOS 1104 for this workstation board; if anyone is using a HighPoint RocketRAID card with this motherboard it’s worth updating as it fixes a problem where the RAID partition(s) disappear after S3 sleep.

     

    You can find it here.

  • Ivy Bridge teaser

    We finished our first Ivy Bridge 3770 build today; here’s a few teaser shots before a full write-up:

     

     

    More to come soon!

  • BIOS update: Asus P8B WS

    For those of you with the Asus P8B WS-based workstations, there is a new BIOS available which enables use of the new Ivy Bridge Xeons (#2009). You can download the BIOS update here.