before Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 testing with a ASUS P5E3 Premium and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. before.1: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5E3 Premium, Chipset: Intel 82X38/X48 + ICH9R, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Hitachi HDE72101 + 1000GB Seagate ST31000528AS + 640GB Western Digital WD6400AAKS-0, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB (675/1008MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1988B, Monitor: IBM L200P, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 340.98, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better before.1 . 211.17 |============================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better before.1 . 441.42 |============================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better before.1 . 258.88 |============================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better before.1 . 62.01 |============================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better before.1 . 662.78 |============================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better before.1 . 617.62 |============================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better before.1 . 605.80 |============================================================