Video performance: Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650 vs Intel Core i5 660.

Lightsmark Benchmark Result i5 660 processor. Lightsmark Benchmark Result QX9650 processor. In both of the above benchmarks the following items are identical: Fedora 12×64 Nvidia Video driver Evga GTX260 core 216 GPU 4G of RAM Intel X25-M SSD The following items are different: DDR2 RAM for the QX9650 benchmark. DDR3 RAM for the i5 660… Continue reading Video performance: Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650 vs Intel Core i5 660.

Benchmarks

Phoronix Global benchmark Top of the World. Why yes, Virginia, that is a 16 Core Dell R900 that I just out performed by Thirty-Three PERCENT, with a dual core system that was not overclocked.

Nvidia “Fake” RAID0 identical in speed to Fedora 12 Soft RAID.

Test Results I have often read that Fedora Logical RAID has better performance characteristics than a “BIOS” or “FAKE” RAID. That may be true in some cases. Today I dispelled that myth in regards to Nvidia BIOS RAID0 versus Fedora Logical RAID0. The test results were identical. Results were obtained with the latest Fedora 12… Continue reading Nvidia “Fake” RAID0 identical in speed to Fedora 12 Soft RAID.

Fastest Servers on earth for compiling Apache web server 2.2.11

I now have the 3 fastest benchmarks for compiling Apache web server version 2.2.11. The server I build that out performs everything else is the ECC® Sabre, which I build on a case by case basis. The results are published at Phoronix If you are interested in ordering an ECC® Sabre or any of the… Continue reading Fastest Servers on earth for compiling Apache web server 2.2.11

Quad vs. Duo

Another benchmark test this afternoon. Results were consistent with the previous results. An Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 outperformed an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 in several tests Quad outperformed in the SciMark2 Composite (by 20%) and Super Pi v2 (less than 1%) tests. Server bench test results at Phoronix Global

Server performance

I have created several server environs in the past week. Today I bench marked one of my servers using Phoronix test suite. The results were astounding! My server running a Core 2 Duo E8400 processor was able to outperform an 8 way Xeon (Dell PowerEdge R900) and a 16 way Xeon server in standardized tests.… Continue reading Server performance