compression-suitem2n AMD Athlon II X2 250 testing with a ASUS M2N-E and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT /3DNOW! 512MB on Debian unstable via the Phoronix Test Suite. athlon x2 250 DDR2: Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 250 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M2N-E, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 2560MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN1 + 128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT /3DNOW! 512MB (550/500MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1988B OS: Debian unstable, Kernel: 3.2.0-3-686-pae (i686), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 302.17, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 302.17, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better athlon x2 250 DDR2 . 3739 |==================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better athlon x2 250 DDR2 . 25.13 |=================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better athlon x2 250 DDR2 . 43.70 |=================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better athlon x2 250 DDR2 . 286.60 |==================================================