Server
Dell PowerEdge R720
Dell’s 12th generation two-socket, 2U Xeon server—the
PowerEdge R720—outperformed last year’s CRN Product of
the Year in the server category by a substantial margin.
The R720 is built around Xeon E5-2600 series processors, the
Sandy Bridge edition of Intel’s sturdy server platform. The tested
unit was equipped with two eight-core E5-2680 processors running
at 2.7GHz. Expandable up to 768 GB in 24 DIMM slots, the tested
unit arrived at the CRN Test Center with Windows Server 2008 R2
Enterprise SP1 running on 128 GB of DDR3 1,600MHz SDRAM.
The PowerEdge R720 turned in the fastest Geekbench score
we’d seen in the CRN Test Center up to that time.
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