phoronixresults10-30-12 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 testing with a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Hurricane Sandy: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10R, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500410AS + 3 x 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS + 320GB Seagate ST3320418AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 512MB (550/400MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.5, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Mark13-fake-turbo-on: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RD890, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN1, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: AMD nee ATI SBx00 Azalia, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.8, Kernel: 3.16-0.bpo.3-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Hurricane Sandy . 15913.81 |=================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Hurricane Sandy ...... 75.67 |================================================= Mark13-fake-turbo-on . 29.82 |=================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Hurricane Sandy ...... 4974.30 |=================== Mark13-fake-turbo-on . 12063.92 |============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Hurricane Sandy ...... 4566.48 |================== Mark13-fake-turbo-on . 11951.72 |==============================================