peter Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 testing with a Gigabyte P35-DS3 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. biocalc: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte P35-DS3, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 250GB SAMSUNG HD250HJ, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: SMB2220N, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fglrx 8.96.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 complex: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte P35-DS3, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 250GB SAMSUNG HD250HJ, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: SMB2220N, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fglrx 8.96.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better biocalc . 55.63 |============================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better biocalc . 31.11 |============================================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better biocalc . 57.16 |============================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better complex . 9603.08 |============================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better complex . 196.33 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better complex . 2950.86 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better complex . 3227.55 |============================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better complex . 388 |================================================================