test AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6670/7670 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. desktop: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.21GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD160JJ + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00Y, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6670/7670 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: ASUS PA238, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, Compiler: GCC 4.6 + CUDA 5.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better desktop . 35.62 |============================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better desktop . 78.60 |============================================================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better desktop . 46.37 |============================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better desktop . 28.08 |==============================================================