thx 2 x Intel Xeon E5450 testing with a HP ProLiant DL360 G5 and AMD nee ATI ES1000 128MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. proliant: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5450 @ 3.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL360 G5, Chipset: Intel 5000P MCH, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 16GB, Graphics: AMD nee ATI ES1000 128MB, Monitor: Philips 170S4, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.18.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: tmpfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better proliant . 35.47 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better proliant . 5271.86 |=========================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better proliant . 5245.02 |=========================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better proliant . 3676 |==============================================================