second run AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core testing with a ASRock 990FX Extreme4 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2048MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. new mem settings: Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.10GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme4, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RD890, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2048MB (900/2004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.0.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.5, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.49, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.49, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better new mem settings . 12893.84 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better new mem settings . 55.38 |===================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better new mem settings . 9829.05 |=================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better new mem settings . 10409.22 |================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better new mem settings . 2951 |======================================================