Daniel- Intel Xeon X3450 testing with a IBM 94Y7718 and Matrox s MGA G200EV on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. RamBenchmark: Processor: Intel Xeon X3450 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: IBM 94Y7718, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB 1067MHz, Disk: 499GB ServeRAID M1015, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EV, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 8460.49 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 8834.65 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 8905.46 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 8445.46 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 8681.94 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 9750.72 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 8878.80 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 8806.54 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 9313.62 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better RamBenchmark . 8648.54 |=======================================================