8500gt Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 testing with a ASUS P5K-E and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512MB on Debian unstable via the Phoronix Test Suite. gt8500: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX + 74GB Western Digital WD740GD-00FL + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AACS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512MB (459/333MHz), Audio: Creative Labs SB Audigy, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian unstable, Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.49, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.49, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better gt8500 . 579.58 |============================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 1680 x 1050 w/ HDR Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better gt8500 . 18.05 |=============================================================== VDrift 2010-06-30 1680 x 1050 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better gt8500 . 4.62 |================================================================ GtkPerf 0.40 GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs Seconds < Lower Is Better gt8500 . 1.85 |================================================================