Nvidia AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ testing with a MSI MS-7309 v1.0 and MSI NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 512MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Test 1: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-7309 v1.0, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP61, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WD800JD-75MS + 80GB Western Digital WD800JD-22JN + 320GB My Book, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 512MB (425/800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Ralink RT2500 Wireless 802.11bg OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-44-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Test 1 . 22.07 |=============================================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Test 1 . 43.57 |=============================================================== Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better Test 1 . 47.26 |===============================================================