obsidiancons AMD Phenom II X4 955 testing with a ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3 under LinuxMint 11 via the Phoronix Test Suite. obsidiancons_01: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3, Chipset: AMD RS880 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WDC WD10EALX-009, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4250 128MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Philips 170S OS: LinuxMint 11, Kernel: 2.6.38-10-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.6.5, Display Server: X Server 1.10.1, Display Driver: fglrx 8.84.60, OpenGL: 3.3.10665, Compiler: GCC 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.98.2 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better obsidiancons_01 . 28.85 |====================================================== Ogg Encoding 1.2.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better obsidiancons_01 . 13.42 |====================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better obsidiancons_01 . 8.14 |======================================================= Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better obsidiancons_01 . 15.36 |====================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better obsidiancons_01 . 12.38 |======================================================