mentha AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ testing with a ECS Nettle3 v2.2 under LinuxMint 1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test1: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Nettle3 v2.2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP61, Memory: 2816MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 512MB (425MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1200 OS: LinuxMint 1, Kernel: 2.6.38-6.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 173.14.30, OpenGL: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.30, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 7-Zip Compression 9.13 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better test1 . 3267 |================================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better test1 . 43.36 |================================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better test1 . 62.73 |================================================================ LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better test1 . 216.23 |===============================================================