anton-fedora18-2013-01-20004 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 testing with a ASUS P5K Premium and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512MB on Fedora 18 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5K Premium, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9R, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512MB (459/399MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1988B, Monitor: S2401W, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Fedora 18, Kernel: 3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.9.5, Display Server: X Server 1.13.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 27.35 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 2751 |=============================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 60.62 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 35 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 72 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 89 |================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 6808 |=============================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 64.21 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 59.24 |============================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 30.66 |============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 50.02 |============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 . 5843.03 |============================================