1 Intel Xeon E5649 testing with a MSI X58 Pro-E (MS-7522) v3.0 (V8.15 BIOS) and MSI NVIDIA GeForce 210 on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1: Processor: Intel Xeon E5649 @ 2.53GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X58 Pro-E (MS-7522) v3.0 (V8.14B8 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD 830, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 210, Audio: NVIDIA HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-50-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Intel Xeon E5649: Processor: Intel Xeon E5649 @ 2.53GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X58 Pro-E (MS-7522) v3.0 (V8.15 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD 830, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 210, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-51-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0 + Clang 6.0.0-1ubuntu2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 ................ 18.99 |===================================================== Intel Xeon E5649 . 18.20 |=================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 ................ 59.51 |===================================================== Intel Xeon E5649 . 57.30 |=================================================== x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5649 . 32.34 |=====================================================