Mosey Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 testing with a ASUS P5KC and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Test1: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5KC, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 320GB MAXTOR STM332062, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (740/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: VX2739wm, Network: Atheros Attansic L1 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.14.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Test2: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5KC, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 320GB MAXTOR STM332062, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (740/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: VX2739wm, Network: Atheros Attansic L1 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.14.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 x11perf 1.5 Test: Char in 80-char aa line Operations / Second > Higher Is Better Test1 . 546667 |=============================================================== Test2 . 543000 |===============================================================