nvidia Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 testing with a ASUS P5QC and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.34GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5QC, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD502IJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB (540/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.60, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 542.19 |============================================== NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 544.28 |============================================== NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 546.28 |============================================== GtkPerf 0.40 GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs Seconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 2.19 |=============================================== NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 2.14 |============================================== NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 2.22 |================================================ Nexuiz 2.5.2 1440 x 900 w/ HDR Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 33.80 |=============================================== Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 1440 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 14.17 |=============================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 1440 x 900 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 13.20 |===============================================