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NICGIGA S50-0800 Cheap 8-port 5GbE Switch Review
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (424+ words) This is an unmanaged switch, so there is no management interface to show. Some might feel better without a managed switch in this segment. Still, we have seen switches with this switch chip that are managed. The performance of this…...
QNAP TS-h1290FX NAS Review The All Flash 25GbE NAS
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (612+ words) QNAP TS-h1290FX NAS Review The All Flash 25GbE NAS - Page 4 of 4ServeTheHome QNAP TS-h1290FX Power Consumption and Noise With its 750-Watt power supply, the TS-h1290FX is designed to be able to handle a pretty wide range of hardware with a pretty wide…...
Ubiquiti UniFi USW-Pro-XG-8-PoE Review A 10Gbase-T Standout Product
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (337+ words) If you wish to purchase one, here is a B&H affiliate link. The front of the unit has air vents at the top, and looks relatively great for a switch of this class. We have seen so many 8-12 port…...
Sodola SL-SWTGW2C48NS 12-port Combo 10GbE Switch Review
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (430+ words) Here is an Amazon affiliate link to what we purchased. Just as a quick preview, we are using our new IxNetwork setup where we can generate line rate 64B packets at over 1.7Tbps. Luckily, we have a 16-port dual PHY NOVUS10/1GE16DP, which allows…...
AMD Intros Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGAs
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (924+ words) For this year's Integrated Systems Europe trade show, AMD is unveiling an upgraded lineup of its Kintex mid-range FPGAs. Dubbed the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 family, this latest iteration of the Kintex family is designed to modernize the FPGAs, bringing support…...
Dell Pro 14 Plus Portable Monitor P1425 Quick Look
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (383+ words) The monitor is a 14" IPS panel, but instead of being a 16:9 aspect ratio, it is a 16:10 19201200 60Hz panel. This would probably not be our choice for gaming, but getting an additional 120 pixels of height over a 1080p monitor is nice. The monitor…...
Intel Announces Xeon 600 Series This is Granite Rapids for Workstations
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (522+ words) Finally, with the launch of the Xeon 600 family comes a new chipset: W890. Intel's latest workstation chip is pretty similar to its predecessor on the whole, but this newer chipset includes Wi-Fi 7 support, helping it to keep pace with Intel's desktop…...
BrosTrend 5GbE PCIe Adapter Realtek RTL8126 NIC Review
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (478+ words) Here is the card. Although it comes with a full-height bracket, you can see just how small it is. One of the big features is the PCIe Gen3 x1 slot. When we did our recent Realtek RTL8127 NIC Review, we noted that we…...
Lenovo ThinkStation PX Workstation Review Intel Xeon for Large Scale Workloads
1+ week, 1+ day ago (335+ words) With dual CPU sockets and dual power supplies, the ThinkStation PX is no lightweight system. And as we saw in our tour of the hardware, that goes both figuratively and literally. As a result, in a maximum configuration, the system…...
Cisco Catalyst C1300-8FP-2G Review a 10-Port PoE Managed Switch from Cisco
1+ week, 3+ day ago (407+ words) At 64B, we got full line rate 1Gbps performance. The maximum latency seemed a bit higher than we might have expected, but we might need to test more 1GbE switches. On the other end of the frame size spectrum, the 1518B size also did…...