KJ AMD Phenom II X4 B50 testing with a Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P and MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB on LinuxMint 14 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1680 x 1050 low effect quality: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.42GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P, Chipset: AMD ATI RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-0 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.13, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 1680 x 1050 Ultimate effect quality: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.42GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P, Chipset: AMD ATI RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-0 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.13, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 1680 x 1050: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.42GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P, Chipset: AMD ATI RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-0 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.13, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.42GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P, Chipset: AMD ATI RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-0 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.13, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 13.10 - Nvidia 331.13: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.42GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P, Chipset: AMD RX780/RX790 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 320GB Western Digital WD3200KS-00P, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB (540/700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.13, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 1680 x 1050 low effect quality . 204.03 |====================================== MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT ..... 174.61 |================================= MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT ..... 187.03 |=================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 1680 x 1050 Ultimate effect quality . 15.49 |================================== 13.10 - Nvidia 331.13 ............... 11.62 |========================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 1680 x 1050 . 2.38 |=========================================================== Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 1680 x 1050 . 14.16 |========================================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MSI NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT . 13.67 |===========================================