speedwork AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ testing with a ASUS M2N-E SLI and NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB on Ubuntu 11.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. speed on a FiberLink cheap plan: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @ 2.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M2N-E SLI, Chipset: AMD K8, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ + 1000GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-00L, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB (635/405MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GPU 0a HDMI/DP OS: Ubuntu 11.04, Kernel: 2.6.38-11-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 3.8.16, Display Server: X Server 1.10.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 270.41.06, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06, Compiler: GCC 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better speed on a FiberLink cheap plan . 43.85 |======================================