first Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing on Gentoo 2.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. first: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: PEGATRON Benicia v1.01, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HDP72505 + 128GB SanDisk SDSSDP12, Graphics: (400/504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Monitor: HP w2216 OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 3.12.6-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better first . 499.96 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better first . 312.13 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better first . 97.91 |================================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better first . 636.70 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better first . 763.31 |=============================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better first . 689.75 |===============================================================