riser4 AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS M5A97 PRO and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD7500AALX-0: Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 4.10GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 PRO, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 750GB Western Digital WD7500AALX-0 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ + 90GB OCZ ILITY3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB (732/1900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.7.10 (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2.902 (1.13.3 RC 2), Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.26, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 313.26, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: Reiser4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD7500AALX-0 . 682 |=========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD7500AALX-0 . 8144.17 |======================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD7500AALX-0 . 8484.09 |======================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD7500AALX-0 . 32.94 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD7500AALX-0 . 17871.71 |======================================