technocrat Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 testing with a ASUS P5E Deluxe and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MB on CentOS 6.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AsusP5EDeluxe: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5E Deluxe, Chipset: Intel 82X38/X48 + ICH9R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 750GB Western Digital WD7501AALS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MB (399/297MHz), Audio: Intel 82801I, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Marvell 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit OS: CentOS 6.3, Kernel: 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.6, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20120305, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 home2 Asus P5E Deluxe 4G RAM: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5E Deluxe, Chipset: Intel 82X38/X48 + ICH9R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 750GB Western Digital WD7501AALS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MB (399/297MHz), Audio: Intel 82801I, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Marvell 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit OS: CentOS 6.3, Kernel: 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.6, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20120305, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better AsusP5EDeluxe ................ 6703 |================================== home2 Asus P5E Deluxe 4G RAM . 8237 |========================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better home2 Asus P5E Deluxe 4G RAM . 81.24 |=========================================