practica Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 testing with a ASUS P5QC and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. mrbayes: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5QC, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 200GB Seagate ST3200822A, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 1024MB (600/800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.11.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.20.0, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.116, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 compress-pbzip2-1.4.0: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5QC, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 200GB Seagate ST3200822A, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 1024MB (600/800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.11.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.20.0, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.116, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better mrbayes . 39.80 |============================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compress-pbzip2-1.4.0 . 29.37 |================================================