bah Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 testing with a Supermicro X9SCL/X9SCM and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCL/X9SCM, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 1000GB TOSHIBA MK1002TS, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4 BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 . 22847414.17 |========================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Integer Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 . 1 |==================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Register Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 . 1 |==================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Floating-Point Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 . 1 |====================================================