Intel® Xeon® processor 3300 series-based servers: Optimized for small business, these value-priced processors with moderate DDR2 memory platform capacity make this ideal as a first, small business server.

Benchmark Description for Amber*: A package of molecular simulation programs. The workload measures the number of problems solved (PS) per day using eight standard molecular dynamic simulations. See http://amber.ch.ic.ac.uk/amber9.bench1.html for more information.

Configuration Details: The above chart compares Intel internally measured results as of January 7, 2008.

Intel® Xeon® processor platform (3085 score 305.5/avg sys watts 134; E3110 score 329.3/avg sys watts 109.5; X3230 score 461.4/avg sys watts 206.1; X3360 score 575.4/avg sys watts 139.8): Intel 3210 Chipset-based server platform using Intel Xeon processor 3085 (3.00 GHz, 4 MB cache, 1333 FSB), E3110 (3.00 GHz, 6 MB cache, 1333 FSB, 45nm), X3230 (2.66 GHz, 8 MB cache, 1066 FSB), or X3360 (2.83 GHz, 12 MB cache, 1333 FSB, 45nm), 4x 2 GB DDR2-800 ECC CL5 DIMMs, 120 GB SATA HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise LINUX 64-bit. Source: Intel internal measurements TR#823/844.

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Relative performance for each benchmark is calculated by taking the actual benchmark result for the first platform tested and assigning it a value of 1.0 as a baseline. Relative performance for the remaining platforms tested was calculated by dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.

64-bit Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® EM64T requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, OS, device drivers and applications enabled for Intel EM64T. Processor will not operate (including 32-bit operation) without an Intel EM64T-enabled BIOS. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software configurations. Intel EM64T-enabled OS, BIOS, device drivers and applications may not be available. Check with your vendor for more information.

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