How cab you seriously test a 12 core system with just 4GB of ram, especially with a windows OS? This cpu would be great for my 3D rendering stuff but even under linux I'd want at least 1GB per core, and up to 4GB per core for large and complex scenes, if I'm going to avoid a lot of swapping (don't forget you'll want to allocate a correspondingly large amount of swap space too, and with so many cores it would help if you use swap partitions spread across several drives).

I'm afraid that any testing done with the current memory configuration just seems nonsensical to me. I also query the wisdom of using 3DMark or Sandra on such a system.

Raid 5 would be way too technical for the author, but perhaps (s)he can benchmark overclocked floppy format performance.

Thomas Has had Much Worse. point may be that clipping marks of unsoldered slots. Sometimes when NEW Slot is in Next Gen Bin, Those strange solder marks appear.

Could already establish standard of 32X pci-e. WITH Mary Jo Inflection, Ability to take Next Gen dual gpu cards into NEW Ralm.

drashek

Dude not just the floppy controller throughput we need to know how this thing does in a floppy Raid 5 configuration :D

"quad-core "Shanghai" Opterons reached a maximum frequency of 2.3GHz"

He must be talking about the ULV? I just found a 2.5 on newegg and I am pretty sure I saw a 2.7 on Dell.

I eagerly await your report on the floppy controller's performance scaling with 12 cores. That's next, right? It has to be!

This is getting ridiculous. Benching nothing other than 3Dmark or sandra on regular systems already produces some of the most useless reviews on the internet, but running those same benches on a 12 core server is making Nebojsa look like a caricature of a reviewer. Not even Tomshardware produced such nonsensical articles in their worst days.

Whats next, Crysis framerates using the integrated graphics? Benchmarking floppy format performance ? Measuring how fast it falls fron the ground if you drop it from 20m ? Those would all be equally useful and insightful