VIDEOIntel Xeon E5504 2 x Intel Xeon E5504 testing with a Supermicro X8DT6 and Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. VIDEOIntel Xeon E5504: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5504 @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8DT6, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR3-800MHz, Disk: 2000GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA2, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.10.23-xxxx-std-ipv6-64 (x86_64), File-System: ext4 x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better VIDEOIntel Xeon E5504 . 110.64 |=============================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better VIDEOIntel Xeon E5504 . 27.94 |================================================ Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better VIDEOIntel Xeon E5504 . 47.05 |================================================