tuxmint370dkfiozone Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a ASUS P5G41T-M LE and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS 768MB on LinuxMint 14 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1strun: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5G41T-M LE, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS 768MB (500/500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.7.0-dfk (i686), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.6.7, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.09, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 313.09, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 2ndrun: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5G41T-M LE, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS 768MB (500/500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.7.0-dfk (i686), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.6.7, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.09, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 313.09, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 1strun . 209.69 |============================================================== 2ndrun . 164.66 |================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 1strun . 176.36 |============================================================== 2ndrun . 111.61 |=======================================