dr AMD Athlon II X4 640 testing with a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H and ATI Radeon HD 4200 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. dr: Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 640 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H, Chipset: AMD RS880 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080 + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EARS-00M, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4200 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: L1730P, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-27-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fglrx 8.96.4, OpenGL: 3.3.11627, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext2/ext3, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better dr . 23.32 |=================================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better dr . 8.97 |==================================================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better dr . 15.83 |=================================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better dr . 14.11 |===================================================================