Gary2 4 x Intel Xeon E7450 testing with a Dell 0X947H and AMD ES1000 128MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Gary2PGBench1: Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E7450 @ 2.39GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0X947H, Chipset: Intel 7300 MCH, Memory: 129024MB, Disk: 146GB PERC 6/i + 449GB PERC 6/i, Graphics: AMD ES1000 128MB, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.11.0-15-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Gary2PGBench1 . 356.91 |=======================================================