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Intel Xeon E5345 testing with a IBM Planar and ATI ES1000 128MB on Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Intel Xeon E5345: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5345 @ 2.33GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: IBM Planar, Chipset: Intel 5000X MCH, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 50GB, Graphics: ATI ES1000 128MB, Monitor: DELL 2408WFP, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit

	OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686.PAE (i686), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20120921, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

Intel Core i7 930: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D-E, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 49152MB, Disk: 2 x 1500GB Seagate ST31500341AS + 256GB M4-CT256M4SSD2 + 3001GB GoFlex Desk + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EVDS-63V, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1024MB (738/1000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.5.11, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200


x264 2012-10-03
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Intel Xeon E5345 .. 48.29  |==================
Intel Core i7 930 . 49.94  |==================
Intel Core i7 930 . 138.20 |===================================================


Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6
WAV To APE
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Xeon E5345 .. 15.76 |====================================================
Intel Core i7 930 . 10.56 |===================================
Intel Core i7 930 . 6.24  |=====================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Xeon E5345 .. 33.66 |====================================================
Intel Core i7 930 . 25.06 |=======================================
Intel Core i7 930 . 15.70 |========================


FFmpeg 1.0
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Xeon E5345 .. 33.48 |====================================================
Intel Core i7 930 . 23.40 |====================================
Intel Core i7 930 . 15.39 |========================