papodesk Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 testing with a Gigabyte P35-DQ6 and AMD Radeon X1950 XT 256MB on LinuxMint 17 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD Radeon X1950 XT: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte P35-DQ6, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9R, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250823A + 30GB Seagate ST330610A + 120GB OCZ AGILITY3 + 400GB SAMSUNG HD401LJ, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1950 XT 256MB, Audio: Intel 82801I, Monitor: Panasonic-TV + D2357Ph, Network: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 OS: LinuxMint 17, Kernel: 3.16.0-25-generic (i686), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.5.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 QGears2 XRender + Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon X1950 XT . 81.31 |================================================== QGears2 XRender + Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon X1950 XT . 101.85 |================================================= QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon X1950 XT . 432.20 |================================================= Render Bench Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.3 Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon X1950 XT . 29.03 |==================================================