baseline Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a ASUS P5Q Premium and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB on LinuxMint 15 via the Phoronix Test Suite. base: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5Q Premium, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10R, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 750GB Western Digital WD7500AADS-0 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB (550/700MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 15, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.8.8, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.44, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 310.44, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better base . 2403 |================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better base . 4547.44 |=============================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better base . 4922.89 |=============================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better base . 64.83 |=================================================================