my systems AMD Phenom II X4 955 testing with a Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3, Chipset: AMD RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00M + 2 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB (850/2052MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GF114 HDMI Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.13.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: modesetting 0.8.1, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + CUDA 5.5, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 536 |================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 6011.89 |============================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 6690.58 |============================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 45.79 |================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 23908.85 |============================= Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 9.39 |================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 8.13 |================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 22.60 |================================ WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 12.65 |================================ TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 696306 |=============================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom II X4 955, 560ti, 8GB DDR2-800 . 105.95 |===============================