MP3 2 x AMD Opteron 2389 testing with a HP 0A1Ch and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Normal: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2389 @ 2.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP 0A1Ch, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 750GB DB0750BABFE + 146GB Logical Volume, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 512MB (702/1000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC262 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-56-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.11.2, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.88, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.88, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Normal . 24.28 |===============================================================