mem Intel Core i7-2620M testing with a Dell 03PH4G and Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) on Fedora 19 via the Phoronix Test Suite. nice: Processor: Intel Core i7-2620M @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03PH4G, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096 MB + 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST9500420AS, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) (1300MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD90BXX, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit PCIe + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Fedora 19, Kernel: 3.11.10-200.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: intel 2.21.12, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20131017, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better nice . 14775.48 |============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better nice . 10541.04 |============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better nice . 11814.79 |============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better nice . 11389.42 |==============================================================