As always, equipment arrives just after the starters gate has been opened and the race is on.   In order to give you the reader a first hand idea on how well the new Shanghai CPU's perform on this the Boston Venom system incorporating Supermicro's H8DAi mainboard we have quickly put together this page containing the most important results for you.  

The only variance in the system build has been the removal of the 2.4GHz Istanbul CPU's and their replacement with the 2.7GHz Shanghai CPU's.

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - The System
Page 3 - System Set-Up and Benchmark/Applications Used
Page 4 - Sandra 2009 SP2
Page 5 - ATTO Benchmark and Everest Ultimate 5.01
Page 6 - POV Ray 3.72 Beta and Cinebench 10 - 64 Bit Tests
Page 7 - 3DS Max 2009 Scenes
Page 8 - SPECviewperf® 10.0 and SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™
Page 9 - Conclusions
Page 10 - Bonus Section (Shanghai 2.7GHz Results)