network test 1 Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 testing with a Supermicro X9SRE/X9SRE-3F/X9SRi/X9SRi-3F v0123456789 and Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel I350 Gigabit Connection: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 @ 3.50GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X9SRE/X9SRE-3F/X9SRi/X9SRi-3F v0123456789, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR3-1600MHz Samsung, Disk: 2 x 240GB SAMSUNG MZ7WD240, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4 Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel I350 Gigabit Connection . 3.02 |=========================================