scott Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505 testing with a MSI G41M-P28 (MS-7592) v5.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. before_videocard_change: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505 @ 2.83GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI G41M-P28 (MS-7592) v5.0, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB KINGSTON SVP200S, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB (981/2257MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GPU 15 HDMI/DP, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better before_videocard_change . 2757 |=============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better before_videocard_change . 4684.02 |============================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better before_videocard_change . 5113.91 |============================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better before_videocard_change . 74.47 |============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better before_videocard_change . 18900.61 |===========================================