8gb ram AMD Athlon II X3 440 testing with a Gigabyte GA-MA770T-ES3 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 8gb ram: Processor: AMD Athlon II X3 440 @ 3.00GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-ES3, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! 1024MB (550/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Ralink RT2561/RT61 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-30-generic-pae (i686), Desktop: Unity 5.14.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.43, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.43, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 9033.42 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 8286.14 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 7986.66 |============================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Floating-Point Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 9294.38 |============================================================ Stream 2009-04-11 Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 9813.26 |============================================================ Stream 2009-04-11 Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 8919.84 |============================================================ Stream 2009-04-11 Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 8871.51 |============================================================ CacheBench Read Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 1740.97 |============================================================ CacheBench Write Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better 8gb ram . 6522.42 |============================================================