Everest Engineers Edition

No software was supplied with the motherboard to monitor temperatures or to give detailed information on the hardware, so we installed our tool of choice Everest Engineers Edition.

The image above (reading the eight icons from the right), shows all the CPU temperatures under full load, showing that the reference copper intel coolers are doing a great job with the Xeon CPU's. Even in a warm room under extended load, I rarely saw temperatures hitting 60c.

Using the programs internal onscreen option, we get the full array of temperatures and voltages in an easy to read manner.

Running some Everest Tests we see relative performance to other processors:

In the CPU zlib test the dual Xeon setup scores around 150,000 which is around 90,000 more than a 4 CPU Xeon 5140 (2333mhz) system on an Intel S5000VSA motherboard (older i5000V chipset), Core 2 Duo E6300 scores around 25,000 in the same test. The CPU Queen test shows the Xeon X5365 scoring just over 16,000 which is around twice the 4 CPU Xeon 5140 result. For reference a Core 2 Duo E6700 Cpu scores around 5,400 in the same test.