sixcores AMD Phenom II X6 1045T testing with a Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. amd6-full: Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1045T @ 2.70GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3, Chipset: AMD RS880 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 64GB Patriot Torqx 2 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EADS-00R, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1024MB (810/500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-39-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.5, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.84, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.84, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better amd6-full . 3214 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better amd6-full . 7422.89 |========================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better amd6-full . 8075.52 |========================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better amd6-full . 69.28 |============================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better amd6-full . 22176.26 |=========================================================