jarodcanal AMD Athlon II X4 610e testing with a ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3 and AMD Radeon HD 4290 624MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. compress-gzip_610e: Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 610e @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3, Chipset: AMD RS880, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4290 624MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: IIEP577, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-5-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 compress-pbzip2_610e: Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 610e @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3, Chipset: AMD RS880, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4290 624MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: IIEP577, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-5-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compress-gzip_610e . 22.75 |=================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compress-pbzip2_610e . 24.09 |=================================================