Testbed and methods

The benchmarks were performed on a system equipped with:

  • PhenomII 940 CPU (4 cores @ 3.0 GHz, 1.8 GHz Northbridge and L3 cache)

  • 8 GB of DDR2-800 DRAM

  • Asus M4A78 Pro motherboard (AMD 780G + SB700 chipset)

  • four 500 GB disk in AHCI mode + software RAID 5 configuration

  • S.O. Linux CentOS 5.4

 

All test were run at least three times and the results were averaged.