nvidia1 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a Gigabyte 965GM-S2 and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. nvidia1: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 0.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 965GM-S2, Chipset: Intel 82P965/G965 + ICH8/R, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB Seagate ST9160821AS, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB (630/810MHz), Audio: Intel 82801H, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-34-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 QGears2 XRender + Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better nvidia1 . 90.64 |============================================================== QGears2 XRender + Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better nvidia1 . 109.81 |============================================================= QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better nvidia1 . 478.76 |============================================================= Render Bench Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.3 Seconds < Lower Is Better nvidia1 . 26.25 |==============================================================