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Venom GPU System with AMD's Opteron™ (aka Istanbul)

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The system setup for this outing

Component	Test System
Mainboard	Supermicro H8DAi-2-0 Mainboard
CPU	2 X 2.4GHz Six-Core AMD Opteron™ (aka Istanbul) 6MB Shared L3 Cache
HSF Coolers	2 X Supermicro Active HSF
Memory	2 X 4GB Crucial DDR2 per CPU (16GB Total) 800MHz ECC DIMMS Memory Modules
Hard Drive (Boot)	1 X 500GB Western Digital RE3 7200RPM 16MB cache
Hard Drive (Data Array)	2 X 2TB Western Digital RE4-GP™ Enterprise SATA 3GB/s (Configured to Raid 1 by Onboard Controller)
PCI Ex Video Card	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
Chassis	Supermicro BLACK 4U TOWER, SC743TQ
PSU	Supermicro 865W

Benchmarks and Software 64-bit Mode

To maintain our target audience within the professional market place, though we are now seeing many old readers coming
back who like the style we produce; we opted for this outing a complete set of professional applications benchmarks.
This in turn means all walks of life have a very good idea what they are about to buy and just how fast it really is from
this factual article. The test system shown within will be readily found within many arena's soon now.

Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit SP2
Sandra 2009 SP2
ATTO Hard Drive Benchmark
Everest 5 Ultimate
POV Ray 3.72 Beta
Cinebench 10 64 Bit
3DS Max 2009 Scenes
SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™
SPECviewperf® 10.0

Each set of tests has been applied on the clean system hard drives shown above to ensure that no residue drivers were left installed with all updates/patches applied. A test/render has been completed many times over different periods of the system uptime. Maintaining the fair play rules of SPEC® we did not manipulate any of this mainboards functionality and left it at its default settings in which it was supplied. Tests have been conducted at 1280 X 1024 @ 60Hz in 32 bit colour. Results that have been shown within this article are from the application/benchmarks first run in accordance with the SPECviewperf® and SPECapc fair play rules. Not an average of 3 runs as some places seem to think is right.

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - The System
Page 3 - System Set-Up and Benchmark/Applications Used
Page 4 - Sandra 2009 SP2
Page 5 - ATTO Benchmark and Everest Ultimate 5.01
Page 6 - POV Ray 3.72 Beta and Cinebench 10 - 64 Bit Tests
Page 7 - 3DS Max 2009 Scenes
Page 8 - SPECviewperf® 10.0 and SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™
Page 9 - Conclusions
Page 10 - Bonus Section (Shanghai 2.7GHz Results)

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