tune Intel Xeon E31240 testing with a HP ProLiant DL120 G7 and Matrox s MGA G200EH on CentOS 6.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. simple benchmark test for tune: Processor: Intel Xeon E31240 @ 3.29GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL120 G7, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 Family DRAM, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EH, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS 6.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better simple benchmark test for tune . 136.74 |====================================== FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better simple benchmark test for tune . 12.29 |======================================= Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better simple benchmark test for tune . 23.21 |=======================================