Before proceeding to the thorough examination of the performance of the reviewed platforms we ran the synthetic SiSoft Sandra 2005 benchmark on the system with two dual-core Intel Xeon 2.8GHz. This will let us know what we can expect from this platform.

The algorithms employed by this benchmark run well in parallel, so the results can be considered as the peak performance of the dual-processor system with two dual-core Paxville CPUs. As you can see, the Paxville-core Xeon platform is far ahead of the platform with the single-core Xeon (Nocona), so we can expect high performance from the new dual-core processor in real-life applications, too.