Tyan Tiger i7520SD S5365

For measuring the performance of the Tyan Tiger i7520SD, we had compared its performance with two Intel Xeon LV Sossaman 2.0GHz processors against two other systems. For an interesting look at things, we had compared these low-voltage Xeon processors against an Intel Pentium D and AMD Athlon 64 X2.

As with the past Tyan motherboards Phoronix has examined, the Tyan Tiger i7520SD S5365 had offered great Linux support all around, however, it did not come without two peculiar problems. For one, the ATI ES1000 integrated video had worked fine throughout the Anaconda installation, and working with GNOME 2.14.2, however, we would occasionally encounter issues with GDM 2.14.9 and the ATI ES1000 video. When attempting to start the GNOME Display Manager, the login screen would fail to appear and ultimately the monitor would fail to initialize. The ATI ES1000 video would work fine through rhgb, but when it came to GDM, there would often be a hang. When installing a PCI-based video card, it had not possessed this problem. Another problem we had ran into when using the LM_Sensors was being unable to detect the onboard sensors. Outside of these two problems, the Linux compatibility experience was smooth. As the Tyan S5365 is designed solely for server applications, we refrained from delivering our traditional enthusiast benchmarking platter. The benchmarks used were Gzip Compression, LAME Compilation, LAME Encoding, and FreeBench.