himes AMD Phenom 9950 testing with a MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. everything: Processor: AMD Phenom 9950 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376) v1.0, Chipset: AMD ATI RD790 + SB600, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1024MB (615/1107MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.18.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.88, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.88, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better everything . 2551 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better everything . 6180.19 |========================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better everything . 6577.62 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better everything . 114.54 |========================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better everything . 19732.09 |========================================================