The Latest System Added To The Linux Benchmarking Lab

While there's already 50+ systems dedicated to daily upstream Linux/open-source benchmarking at LinuxBenchmarking.com, yet another system was commissioned last night.

Out of some spare parts laying around the office, another Intel rig was added to the LinuxBenchmarking.com test farm powered by Phoromatic and the Phoronix Test Suite. This new system will be added to the group of systems benchmarking Fedora Linux daily while using the newest Fedora Rawhide Nodebug kernel repo that's closely tracking the upstream Linux Git, alongside our daily Ubuntu kernel vanilla tracker.

This new system was powered by an Intel Core i3 2120 "Sandy Bridge" CPU for having one laying around. This dual-core 3.3GHz part plus Hyper Threading is sufficient for running Fedora Server 22 and the HD Graphics 2000 will be ignored in that regard.

The new motherboard for this build was the BIOSTAR B75MU3B, which I picked for being one of the cheapest (less than $60 USD) yet rated well. This Biostar motherboard using the Intel B75 chipset is a micro-ATX motherboard with PCI Express x16, two DDR3-1600/1333 slots, USB 3.0, etc.

The chassis for this build was the NORCO RPC-230 2U. I've used this NORCO 2U chassis in a few other builds in the basement server room and it's worked out fine and only costs around $50 USD while my main gripe is the lack of any front fan filters on this model.

Other components for this build was a Gskill 4GB DDR3 stick (only one around, but is fine for the purposes of this low-end server build and just caring about the day-to-day change in performance), 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001-1E61 SATA hard drive, and a Corsair CX430 power supply.

Cooling the Core i3 2120 is the Thermaltake i1 heatsink, which is low-profile and allows plenty of clearance in the 2U chassis and fairly quiet while being able to dissipate the 65 Watt TDP of this processor.

For the hardware that was bought for this build to add to the daily Fedora kernel benchmarking, the hardware was mostly purchased from Amazon.com. For those often frequently buying from Amazon, please consider using our affiliate link (for easy access you can always find it from the Phoronix.com home page too) to support Phoronix while making your Amazon purchases as a percentage of the sales will go back to benefit our Linux hardware testing at Phoronix, etc.

You'll be able to find this Core i3 system producing benchmark results daily over at LinuxBenchmarking.com. I still hope to add some more systems soon while still battling the rising electrical costs of running so many Linux benchmarks daily; if you'd like to help, please consider subscribing to Phoronix Premium or making a PayPal tip.