Chuck 1 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a ASUS P5N-E SLI and NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 512MB on LinuxMint 1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. First: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI, Chipset: NVIDIA C55, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HDP72505, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 512MB (540/399MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: HP x20LED OS: LinuxMint 1, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, 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: 1600x900 Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better First . 40.83 |================================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better First . 3527.97 |============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better First . 64.42 |================================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better First . 2272 |================================================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 46.45 |================================================================ Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 17.96 |================================================================ GMPbench 0.2 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better First . 1465.50 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better First . 87 |=================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better First . 33 |=================================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 91.88 |================================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 18.83 |================================================================ LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 224.02 |=============================================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 115.74 |=============================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 29.81 |================================================================ FFmpeg 0.10 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 20.28 |================================================================ GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 13.98 |================================================================ Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 908.55 |=============================================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 1355 |================================================================= Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 38.62 |================================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better First . 35.48 |================================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better First . 179.79 |=============================================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better First . 3755 |================================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better First . 11801.84 |============================================================= Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better First . 8.35 |=================================================================