first-test 2 x Intel Xeon E5420 testing with a Supermicro X7DBN and AMD ATI ES1000 128MB on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1st: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X7DBN, Chipset: Intel 5000P MCH, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 11GB 9690SA-4I DISK + 2089GB 9690SA-4I DISK, Graphics: AMD ATI ES1000 128MB, Monitor: Acer G245HQ, Network: Intel 80003ES2LAN Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: SquashFS, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 1st . 17.59 |================================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 1st . 4095.07 |================================================================