Workstation
Over the last decade or so, advancements in CPU and GPU architectures have combined extremely well with the relentless march of Moore's Law on the silicon front. Together, these have resulted in hand-held devices that have more computing power than huge and power-hungry machines from the turn of the century. On the desktop front, small form-factor (SFF) machines are now becoming a viable option for demanding professional use-cases. CAD, modeling, and simulation capabilities that required big iron servers or massive tower workstations just a few years back are now capable of being served by compact systems. Workstation notebooks integrating top-end mobile CPUs and professional graphics solutions from AMD (FirePro) or NVIDIA (Quadro Mobile / RTX Professional) have been around since the early 2000s. The advent...
AMD Announces FirePro Mobile W7170M, W5170M, & W5130M
In what’s turning out to be a busy week for mobile workstation announcements, AMD is announcing this week that they are launching three new FirePro Mobile parts. This latest...
12 by Ryan Smith on 10/2/2015
NVIDIA Announces Maxwell-Based Quadro M Mobile Series
By and large we erroneously tend to think of NVIDIA’s Quadro family of video cards as desktop video cards. While NVIDA has offered mobile Quadro cards for nearly a...
7 by Ryan Smith on 10/1/2015
ASUS Launches X99-M WS for Haswell-E Workstations
I love a good workstation – something with the power under the hood that acts as the silent black-box knight when work needs to be done. Most workstations are...
27 by Ian Cutress on 7/31/2015
The Lenovo ThinkStation P900 Workstation Review: Design 101
The workstation market has always been a consistent seller. The dream of offloading to an on or off-site VM and a cluster for work processing still lies more in...
61 by Ian Cutress on 5/6/2015
Lenovo ThinkStation P300 Workstation Review: Haswell plus Quadro
Individual under-the-desk workstations are an integral part of modern society. Normally a work PC is either thought-limited or throughput-limited, but depending on the type of business and financials of...
57 by Ian Cutress on 11/4/2014
ASUS Announces Haswell-E Workstation Motherboards: X99-E WS (1P) and Z10PE-D8 WS (2P)
The normal route for workstation level motherboards is from the server business unit of a motherboard manufacturer, which then works its way into full systems rather than being sold...
33 by Ian Cutress on 9/15/2014
GIGABYTE Server GA-7PESH3 Motherboard Review
A dual processor system sounds awesome to the home user but in reality it is almost entirely a professional market. The prosumer has to use Xeons at JEDEC memory...
35 by Ian Cutress on 9/4/2014
Lenovo Announces New ThinkStation P Series Desktop Workstations
As much as I would like to be at SIGGRAPH, one of the reasons to visit would be to see Lenovo’s latest launch of their Haswell-E Desktop Workstation series...
18 by Ian Cutress on 8/12/2014
Lenovo Launches Two Business Devices
Lenovo utilized its Accelerate 2014 Partner Forum in Orlando to launch two new devices under its “Think” brand which are aimed at the business user. The first is a...
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DigitalStorm Slade Pro Workstation PC Review
While system integrators are often best known for their high performance gaming PCs, they can also carve out a niche with customized workstation systems.
52 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/23/2014
ASUS P9X79-E WS Review: Xeon meets PLX for 7x
Alongside their line of channel and ROG motherboards, ASUS also has business (B/Q chipset) and Workstation (WS) lines for professional markets. The goal of these products is compatibility...
53 by Ian Cutress on 1/10/2014
Trials of an Intel Quad Processor System: 4x E5-4650L from SuperMicro
Trials of an Intel Quad Processor System: 4x E5-4650L from SuperMicro In recent months at AnandTech we have tackled a few issues of dual processor systems for regular use, and...
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Puget Systems Genesis II Quiet Workstation Review
As a boutique, Puget Systems has been able to produce some of the quietest towers we've ever tested, but can they work their magic with a pair of octal-core Xeons?
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Dell Precision M6700 Notebook Review: The Enterprise Split
When you think about it, the enterprise workstation market really only has three key players. You have HP, who produce some excellent mobile workstations but have been stagnating horribly...
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Lenovo ThinkStation D30 Workstation Review: 16 Cores and 32 Threads Under Your Desk
This month is a massive rush of new hardware. Users fond of high-powered portables are probably losing their minds; while Windows 8 and RT are of questionable value to...
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Dell Precision T1650 Workstation Review: Ivy Bridge Xeons Bring Performance
This year has seen a revitalized Dell aggressively attacking HP on the enterprise workstation front. While HP has been content to recycle last year's models, Dell has made substantial...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/31/2012
HP Z420 Workstation Review: Competition Heats Up
Recently we had a chance to review Dell's Precision T3600, and we found it impressive. A company that seemed content to be an also-ran in the enterprise desktop space...
35 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/21/2012
Dell Precision T3600 Review: Dell's New Enterprise
As far as enterprise-class workstations go, we're at the point now where there are fundamentally two major competitors: an entrenched HP, and a very hungry Dell. We've had a...
26 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/23/2012
iBuyPower Professional Series: Reversal of Fortune
When it comes to buying a pre-built desktop for the average consumer or gamer, about the only thing the big box manufacturers really have going for them is price...
21 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/21/2011
HP Z210 SFF Workstation: Serious Power in Cramped Quarters
We're taking our second excursion into enterprise-class desktop territory with the kind of machine that should be of interest both to IT management and enthusiasts alike: HP's Z210 SFF...
26 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/29/2011
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