first audio test AMD Phenom II X4 960T testing with a Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. first audio test: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 960T @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ + 128GB OCZ AGILITY4 + 2 x 250GB Seagate ST3250410AS, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 (750/900MHz), Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: BenQ FP91GX + B102005, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.15.5-031505-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.13.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better first audio test . 17.10 |===================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better first audio test . 7.25 |====================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better first audio test . 20.40 |===================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better first audio test . 11.40 |=====================================================