phenom AMD Phenom 9450e testing with a ASRock 960GC-GS FX and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB on LinuxMint 17.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. PB: Processor: AMD Phenom 9450e @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 960GC-GS FX, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 128GB SanDisk SDSSDHP1 + 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB (540/700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17.1, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.4.6, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1360x768 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better PB . 6174 |==================================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better PB . 35.73 |=================================================================== GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better PB . 19.62 |=================================================================== Bork File Encrypter 1.4 File Encryption Time Seconds < Lower Is Better PB . 41.59 |=================================================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better PB . 40.81 |=================================================================== Warsow 1.51 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better PB . 39.20 |===================================================================