primera Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 testing with a ASRock P43DE3 and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 1024MB on LinuxMint 17.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. primera: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.34GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock P43DE3, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00Y, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 1024MB, Audio: VIA VT1708S, Monitor: ASUS VS247, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17.1, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better primera . 5405.47 |============================================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better primera . 5405.64 |============================================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better primera . 6319.10 |============================================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better primera . 6299.48 |============================================================