Art's AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core testing with a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0 and Gigabyte AMD Radeon 3000 512MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Test1: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER1, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon 3000 512MB, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: VK248, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Test1 . 16492 |================================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Test1 . 9.37 |================================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Test1 . 15.32 |================================================================ LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Test1 . 150.14 |===============================================================