It seems a lil snappier, actually. I'd like to know what CPUs will run in that server board.
IME, Clock speed is everything.
imo
It's not everything, but it's important.
Processing power and clock speed is not what's holding us back at the moment.
It's the latency of the subsystems that keep the processing system time slices unused which is why we've turned to clustering of time slicing and paralleled the instruction sets.
It does seem a little snappier. Bigger/faster CPUs wouldn't hurt, as long as the board can handle them.
I'll give it a few days and watch how it deals with the garbage functions.
1366 boards and CPU's were killer for large serving but they were expensive as hell and needed powerful cooling. With this board, it wouldn't hurt to maximize the cpu .. but if there was throttling in the processing system because the subsystem is overloaded, then it's a waste of $$$, again imo.
You mentioned the drive system and let's face it, that's where the latency issues will prevail. I've been running ssd's since my first 30G Raid 0 ssd setup.
Let's face it, the 1366 was and is still one of the best at high processing factors
along the entire system.
I could run Premier in real time while shooting video and edit it in real time with the 1366 I owned.