DaveP AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core testing with a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Stock: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-667MHz, Disk: 74GB Western Digital WD740GD-00FL + 2 x 500GB Seagate ST3500630AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-23-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x800 Stock MP3: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-667MHz, Disk: 74GB Western Digital WD740GD-00FL + 2 x 500GB Seagate ST3500630AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-23-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x800 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Stock . 18401 |================================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Stock MP3 . 19.64 |============================================================