first Intel Xeon E5310 testing with a Dell PowerEdge 2900 under CentOS 5.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. initial: Processor: Intel Xeon E5310 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Dell PowerEdge 2900, Chipset: Intel 5000X MCH, Memory: 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 512 MB + 512 MB DDR2-667MHz, Disk: 501GB PERC 5/i, Graphics: ATI ES1000, Monitor: V193 OS: CentOS 5.6, Kernel: 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.centos.plus (x86_64), Display Driver: ati 6.6.3, Compiler: GCC 4.1.2, File-System: ext3 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better initial . 112.22 |=============================================================