Skynet Intel Core i7 970 testing with a ASUS P6T DELUXE V2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB on Gentoo n/a via the Phoronix Test Suite. gentooxfce: Processor: Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6T DELUXE V2, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 4 x 251GB Western Digital WD2502ABYS-0 + 300GB Western Digital WD3000HLFS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (626/1053MHz) OS: Gentoo n/a, Kernel: 3.2.0-redstarx+ (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.20, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.20, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang 3.0 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better gentooxfce . 16.49 |=========================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better gentooxfce . 51.33 |=========================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better gentooxfce . 8281000 |=========================================================