LMDE AMD Athlon II X4 641 testing with a Gigabyte GA-A75M-S2V and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB on LinuxMint 1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. cinamon, run 1: Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 641 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A75M-S2V, Chipset: AMD Family 12h Root Complex, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-22N + 80GB SAMSUNG SP0812C, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (600/720MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: W2452, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: LinuxMint 1, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), 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, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 cinamon, run 2: Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 641 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A75M-S2V, Chipset: AMD Family 12h Root Complex, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-22N + 80GB SAMSUNG SP0812C, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: LinuxMint 1, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.20, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better cinamon, run 1 . 92.84 |======================================================= cinamon, run 2 . 93.36 |=======================================================