baseline AMD Opteron 6274 testing with a Supermicro H8SGL under Ubuntu 11.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. first: Processor: AMD Opteron 6274 @ 2.20GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8SGL, Chipset: ATI RD890 PCI to PCI bridge + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 32256MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 300GB Maxtor 6L300S0, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB (450/800MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GPU 12 HDMI/DP OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.24.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 280.13, OpenGL: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 280.13, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext2/ext3, Screen Resolution: 3840x1200 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better first . 75.48 |================================================================