Damon AMD Athlon II X2 220 testing with a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1: Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 220 @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 160GB SAMSUNG HD160JJ + 250GB Maxtor 7Y250M0 + 160GB SAMSUNG SP1614C, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512MB (450/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.51, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.51, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better 1 . 2500 |===================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 1 . 6557.40 |================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 1 . 7242.74 |================================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 . 154.13 |===================================================================