tuxmint38rc3 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a ASUS P5G41T-M LE and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS on LinuxMint 14 via the Phoronix Test Suite. iozone.1srun: 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, Audio: Realtek ALC887, Monitor: DELL U2410, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.8.0-rc3 (i686), Desktop: GNOME 3.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 iozone.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, Audio: Realtek ALC887, Monitor: DELL U2410, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.8.0-rc3 (i686), Desktop: GNOME 3.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone.1srun .. 210.17 |======================================================= iozone.2ndrun . 165.09 |=========================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone.1srun .. 182.63 |======================================================= iozone.2ndrun . 115.85 |===================================