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AMD Phenom 9950 testing with a DFI LP JR 790GX v1.0 and XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT 512MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Dell w E8400: 

	Processor: Intel Core 2 E8400 @ 2.99GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0RY007 (1.0.12 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9R, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WD800JD-75MS + 16GB Cruzer Glide + 128GB USB Flash Drive, Graphics: Intel G33 384MB, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: DELL 2001FP, Network: Intel 82562V-2 10/100

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-36-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 1.4 Mesa 12.0.6, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200

DFI w Phenom 9950: 

	Processor: AMD Phenom 9950 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: DFI LP JR 790GX v1.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 500GB Western Digital WD5000LPVX-0 + 480GB Micron_M500_MTFD + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-65L, Graphics: XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT 512MB (570/730MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: NVIDIA TV Encoder + DELL 2001FP, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-43-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.135, OpenGL: 2.1.2, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2624x1200


x264 2018-07-28
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Dell w E8400 ...... 6.72 |=====================================================
DFI w Phenom 9950 . 3.91 |===============================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Dell w E8400 ...... 28.66 |===================================
DFI w Phenom 9950 . 43.04 |====================================================


WavPack Audio Encoding 5.1
WAV To WavPack
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Dell w E8400 ...... 9.26  |======================
DFI w Phenom 9950 . 21.71 |====================================================


FFmpeg 4.0.2
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Dell w E8400 ...... 21.93 |=========================
DFI w Phenom 9950 . 46.38 |====================================================


Mencoder 1.3.0
AVI To LAVC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Dell w E8400 ...... 34.64 |==========================
DFI w Phenom 9950 . 68.90 |====================================================