Since we’re testing budget-grade processors, I performed all my tests on a cheap X99 motherboard armed with two Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 processors, with each CPU running at stock settings.
Besides a few outliers which I’ll get to in the next section, my dual Xeon E5-2650 v4 system exceeded my expectations in almost all tests I threw at it on Proxmox, TrueNAS, and Unraid.