Audio Encoding AMD Phenom 9950 testing with a DFI LP JR 790GX v1.0 and AMD Radeon HD 3300 384MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Phenom 3.2: Processor: AMD Phenom 9950 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: DFI LP JR 790GX v1.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-65L + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0 + 60GB Western Digital WD600BB-00CA, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3300 384MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: DELL 2001FP, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-70-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom 3.2 . 10.02 |=========================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom 3.2 . 14.58 |=========================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom 3.2 . 22.74 |=========================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Phenom 3.2 . 12.92 |===========================================================