ram Intel Core i5-2540M testing with a Dell 0862D8 and Intel HD 3000 on Debian 8.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. dual channel: Processor: Intel Core i5-2540M @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0862D8, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 256GB SanDisk SDSSDHP2, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: BenQ G2000W + E24W-1SD, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Debian 8.3, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: intel 2.21.15, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.3.2, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3600x1200 Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better dual channel . 10768.12 |====================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better dual channel . 10732.44 |====================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better dual channel . 11864.38 |====================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better dual channel . 11853.91 |======================================================