My rig AMD Phenom II X3 710 testing with a ASUS M5A78L-M LX and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Kingston SSD test: Processor: AMD Phenom II X3 710 @ 2.60GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-M LX, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EACS-65D + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (600/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: Hitachi/HINT X91D DVI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.67, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 PNY GeForce 8800GT test: Processor: AMD Phenom II X3 710 @ 2.60GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-M LX, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EACS-65D + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (600/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: Hitachi/HINT X91D DVI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.67, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Kingston SSD test . 130.70 |=================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Kingston SSD test . 193.00 |=================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Kingston SSD test . 129.33 |=================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better Kingston SSD test . 449.33 |=================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 194.72 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: No - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 181.42 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 221.80 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 136.56 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 196.27 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 129.07 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: No - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 149.41 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 150.42 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 140.53 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: No - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 153.70 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 114.57 |============================================= Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PNY GeForce 8800GT test . 121.12 |=============================================