Based on the Haswell microarchitecture, the Intel processor families bring a set of performance boosting features. In addition to the usual boost in frequencies & core numbers, the Intel Xeon is the first in the industry to support the DDR4 memory technology. Moreover, the processors include encryption performance overhead reduction features, & technologies improving run time & migration VM integrity. On the previous server platforms from Intel, the maximum supported memory frequency has always been automatically downgraded by design when more DIMMs were being added on a server motherboard. As this trade-off between performance & capacity represents a dilemma to many memory-hungry server applications, GIGABYTE offers a unique solution.