xeonnew Intel Xeon E5-1620 0 testing with a LENOVO and NVIDIA Quadro K600 on CentOS 6.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. xeon: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 3 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz RMR1881ED58E9, Disk: 179GB MR9240-8i + 1000GB MR9240-8i, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro K600, Audio: Intel C600/X79, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 I7 2nd: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 1855B3G, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST31000524AS + 1000GB Seagate ST31000528AS, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Desktop (GT1) (1350MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Monitor: S24B300, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: openSUSE 12.3, Kernel: 3.11.8-1.16-desktop (i686), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: intel 2.20.19, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 BLAKE2 20130131 Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.6 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better xeon . 5.41 |================================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better xeon ... 83.44 |====================================================== I7 2nd . 97.98 |=============================================================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better xeon ... 40.58 |============================================ I7 2nd . 58.32 |=============================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better xeon ... 12.21 |=============================================================== I7 2nd . 11.09 |=========================================================