Carbon AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS Crosshair V Formula and AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB on LinuxMint 14 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 7z-8150: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WD6400AACS-0 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: HP 2509, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection + Atheros AR9300 Wireless LAN adaptor OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.9.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: fglrx 9.0.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11903, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Western Digital WD6400AACS-0: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WD6400AACS-0 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: HP 2509, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection + Atheros AR9300 Wireless LAN adaptor OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.9.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: fglrx 9.0.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11903, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 7z-8150 . 19035 |============================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD6400AACS-0 . 2873 |========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD6400AACS-0 . 9094.45 |======================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD6400AACS-0 . 9431.02 |======================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD6400AACS-0 . 31.74 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD6400AACS-0 . 21816.50 |======================================