Gimli_36_6600 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a ASUS P5K-E and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Config intel 6600: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.39GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB Western Digital WD1600AAJS-0 + 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB (540/400MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1988B, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-39-generic-pae (i686), Desktop: Unity 5.18.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext2/ext3, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Config intel 6600 . 199.36 |=================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Config intel 6600 . 4081.71 |================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Config intel 6600 . 4096.25 |================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Config intel 6600 . 170 |======================================================