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Intel Xeon 5130 and 5160 (2-way SMP) Performance Review

By Vijay Anand - 30 Oct 2006

Results - SYSmark 2004

Results - SYSmark 2004

Definitely not anywhere a workstation nor a multi-core CPU test, SYSMark 2004 hardly scales with more powerful platforms as it can't take advantage of more than two processing cores. In fact, it hardly uses more than a single core, but the second core just helps ease it through some of its tasks. As such, quad-core setups such as the Xeons seem like a waste to perform general productivity tasks and we couldn't agree more. In any case, this is a good case study. Take note that the Core 2 Extreme system had AHCI drivers installed while the Xeon platforms had to make do without it. As such, scores in SYSmark showed up lower than expected for a dual Xeon 5160 setup (besides the Internet Content Creation Suite). We couldn't obtain Xeon 5130 scores as the benchmark won't run in Windows 2003 Server operating system.

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