aa AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ testing with a ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI.. and NVIDIA GeForce 8200/ /SSE2/3DNOW! 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI.., Chipset: NVIDIA MCP78S, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8200/ /SSE2/3DNOW! 512MB (500/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Monitor: BenQ BL2400, Network: NVIDIA MCP77 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-34-generic (i686), Desktop: KDE 3.5.13.2, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.116, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 . 23.37 |================================================ x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 . 12.37 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 . 807 |================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 . 1016667 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 . 9674 |=================================================