test AMD Phenom II X2 550 testing with a ASUS M4A78 under LinuxMint 12 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1: Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550 @ 3.10GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A78, Chipset: ATI RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-00R + 250GB Seagate ST3250620A + 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB (550/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887 OS: LinuxMint 12, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 280.13, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 280.13, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 1 . 3289 |=====================================================================