RHEL_21 Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 testing with a ASUS P9D WS and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 2048MB on RedHatEnterpriseWorkstation 7.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. new config: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P9D WS, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz Kingston, Disk: 4 x 480GB Crucial_CT480M50 + 480GB INTEL SSDSC2BP48, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 2048MB (1019/2505MHz), Audio: Intel 8 /C220, Monitor: Ancor PA248, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: RedHatEnterpriseWorkstation 7.1, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.59, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3520x1200 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better new config . 23.62 |===========================================================