test AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ testing with a ASUS M2N8-VMX and NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. testpass1: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.01GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M2N8-VMX, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP61, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 250GB Western Digital WD2500JS-58N, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 512MB (425/666MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC883, Network: Atheros Attansic L1 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better testpass1 . 2048.12 |========================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better testpass1 . 1959.42 |========================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better testpass1 . 2373.20 |========================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better testpass1 . 2287.65 |==========================================================