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2 x Intel Xeon X5680 testing with a EVGA Classified SR-2 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6144MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P + 60GB Corsair Force 3, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.3.3-2-ARCH (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1200

Adams EVGA SR2 comparison: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 4.20GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-2, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 956GB MR9260-8i, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6144MB (324/324MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio, Network: NetEffect NE020 10Gb Accelerated

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-43-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.63, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 4.20GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-2, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 956GB MR9260-8i, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6144MB (967/3004MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio, Network: NetEffect NE020 10Gb Accelerated

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-43-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.63, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 6881 |==================================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 5208 |==========================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 4967 |=========================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 14860.44 |=======================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 19422.12 |==============================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 14108.11 |======================


BLAKE2 20130131
Phoronix Test Suite v6.0.1
Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 5.07 |==========================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 6.64 |==================================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 6.62 |==================================


x264 2015-11-02
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 183.57 |================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 356.10 |================================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 349.37 |===============================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 21961 |=============
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 56095 |=================================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 48881 |=============================


ebizzy 0.3
Phoronix Test Suite v6.0.1
Records/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 157716 |================================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 69653  |==============
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 66174  |=============


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 116.80 |================================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 49.79  |==============
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 51.22  |==============


FFmpeg 2.8.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 9.98  |============================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 11.64 |================================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 11.85 |=================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 36964.78 |==============================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison ............ 20288.67 |================
Adams EVGA SR2 comparison 2 .......... 19851.55 |================