before tweaking AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ testing with a ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX on Ubuntu 15.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. baseline: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe, Chipset: NVIDIA C51, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 250GB HDS722525VLSA80, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX, Audio: C-Media CMI8738/CMI8768, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster + DELL 2001FP, Network: Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-26-lowlatency (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.125, OpenGL: 2.1.2, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3432x1200 x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better baseline . 17.56 |=============================================================