networkTest Intel Core i7 960 testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH X58 and NVIDIA GeForce 450 GTS 1024MB on SUSE LINUX 12.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test: Processor: Intel Core i7 960 @ 3.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH X58, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250318AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 450 GTS 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL 2709W, Network: Realtek RTL-8110SC/8169SC OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.1.0-1.2-default (i686), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better test . 33.07 |=================================================================