test Intel Xeon W3565 testing with a Supermicro X8STi and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on CentOS 5.7 (Final) via the Phoronix Test Suite. test01: Processor: Intel Xeon W3565 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8STi, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 1024 MB + 4096 MB + 1024 MB + 4096 MB + 1024 MB + 4096 MB 1333MHz, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250318AS + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ + 7990GB E7B4vbKNa4WmU7VE, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS 5.7 (Final), Kernel: 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.1.2, File-System: ext3 test02-b: Processor: Intel Xeon W3565 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8STi, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 1024 MB + 4096 MB + 1024 MB + 4096 MB + 1024 MB + 4096 MB 1333MHz, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250318AS + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ + 7990GB E7B4vbKNa4WmU7VE, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS 5.7 (Final), Kernel: 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.1.2, File-System: ext3 IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better test01 ... 1109.21 |=========================================================== test02-b . 1055.73 |========================================================