bryan 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 testing with a Supermicro X10DRU-i+ v1.01 and ASPEED ASPEED Family on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. abc: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 @ 3.30GHz (40 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10DRU-i+ v1.01, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 387072MB, Disk: 3 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection + Mellanox MT27500 Family OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.21.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 abcd: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 @ 3.30GHz (40 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10DRU-i+ v1.01, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 387072MB, Disk: 3 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection + Mellanox MT27500 Family OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.21.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 q: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 @ 3.30GHz (40 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10DRU-i+ v1.01, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 387072MB, Disk: 3 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER1, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection + Mellanox MT27500 Family OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.21.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better abc .. 14.43 |================================================================= abcd . 14.29 |================================================================ q .... 13.88 |===============================================================