comp baseline AMD FX-6300 Six-Core testing with a Gigabyte 970A-UD3P and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB on LinuxMint 16 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 5ghz no optimizations: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.32, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.32, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Pre-optimization: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.32, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.32, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 2200/2600/2133-10-12-12: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, Chipset: AMD, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.32, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.32, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 5ghz no optimizations ... 128.82 |============================================= Pre-optimization ........ 129.78 |============================================= 2200/2600/2133-10-12-12 . 119.22 |=========================================