result AMD Phenom II X4 955 testing with a MSI 990FXA-GD80 (MS-7640) v2.0 and AMD Radeon HD 7970 on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. first: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 4.27GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 990FXA-GD80 (MS-7640) v2.0, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RD890, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 400GB SAMSUNG HD403LJ + 300GB Western Digital WD3000HLFS-0 + 300GB Western Digital WD3000GLFS-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7970, Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Monitor: E2370, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better first . 22646.84 |============================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better first . 71.67 |================================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 9425.10 |============================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 10482.78 |=============================================================