first Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a ASUS P5G41C-M and ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test1: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5G41C-M, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST31000528AS + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB (700/800MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VE247, Network: D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-67-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.20.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better test1 . 15648.39 |============================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better test1 . 51.54 |================================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better test1 . 4247.67 |============================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better test1 . 4598.59 |============================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better test1 . 2259 |=================================================================