stans AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ testing with a ASUS CROSSHAIR and AMD Radeon HD 6570 1024MB on LinuxMint 14 via the Phoronix Test Suite. stans1: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ @ 2.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS CROSSHAIR, Chipset: NVIDIA C51, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 123GB Maxtor 6Y120P0 + 160GB Western Digital WD1600JB-00E + 165GB Hitachi HDS72161, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 1024MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: CMC 19" AD OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better stans1 . 28.88 |=============================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better stans1 . 10.52 |=============================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better stans1 . 33.80 |===============================================================