before Intel Core i5 520M testing with a Sony VAIO and NVIDIA GeForce 310M 512MB on Fedora 16 via the Phoronix Test Suite. firsttest: Processor: Intel Core i5 520M @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Sony VAIO, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HM500JI, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 310M 512MB (625/790MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC275, Monitor: NVIDIADefault, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 OS: Fedora 16, Kernel: 3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 secondtest: Processor: Intel Core i5 520M @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Sony VAIO, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HM500JI, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 310M 512MB (625/790MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC275, Monitor: NVIDIADefault, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 OS: Fedora 16, Kernel: 3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Add MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 3967.99 |================================== secondtest . 6709.54 |========================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 4142.06 |================================== secondtest . 6965.13 |========================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 3790.65 |=============================== secondtest . 6924.21 |========================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Floating-Point Add MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 4672.38 |===================================== secondtest . 7219.81 |========================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Add MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 4589.72 |=================================== secondtest . 7485.85 |========================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 4219.89 |================================== secondtest . 7136.80 |========================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 4359.89 |=================================== secondtest . 7027.48 |========================================================= CacheBench Read Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 2178.61 |======================================================== secondtest . 2225.60 |========================================================= CacheBench Write Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttest .. 7322.31 |========================================================= secondtest . 7340.31 |=========================================================