benchmarking AMD Phenom II X4 B50 testing with a ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO under LinuxMint 11 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 550BE X3 @3.80: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.10GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO, Chipset: AMD RS880 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 40GB OCZ VERTEX2 + 320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200BEKT-6 + 300GB Western Digital WDC WD3000HLFS-0 + 300GB Western Digital WDC WD3000HLFS-7, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5800 1024MB (850/1200MHz), Audio: VIA VT1708S, Monitor: Acer P205H OS: LinuxMint 11, Kernel: 3.0.1-030001-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.1, Display Driver: fglrx 8.87.5 Catalyst 11.7, OpenGL: 4.1.10907, Compiler: GCC 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 run2: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.10GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO, Chipset: AMD RS880 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 40GB OCZ VERTEX2 + 320GB Western Digital WDC WD3200BEKT-6 + 300GB Western Digital WDC WD3000HLFS-0 + 300GB Western Digital WDC WD3000HLFS-7, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5800 1024MB (850/1200MHz), Audio: VIA VT1708S, Monitor: Acer P205H OS: LinuxMint 11, Kernel: 3.0.1-030001-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.1, Display Driver: fglrx 8.87.5 Catalyst 11.7, OpenGL: 4.1.10907, Compiler: GCC 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 7-Zip Compression 9.13 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 550BE X3 @3.80 . 3968 |======================================================== run2 ........... 3973 |========================================================