inital testing 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. first install tests: 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: 8 x 16384 MB DDR3-1600MHz Samsung, Disk: 2 x 2000GB HGST HUS724020AL, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-58-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better first install tests . 28.30 |================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better first install tests . 85.24 |================================================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better first install tests . 34.58 |================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better first install tests . 23.21 |==================================================