x3550encoding 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 x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5345 . 48.29 |===================================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5345 . 15.76 |===================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5345 . 33.66 |===================================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5345 . 33.48 |=====================================================