fried mobo test AMD Athlon II X2 260 testing with a Gigabyte M720-US3 and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB on LinuxMint 17.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770: Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 260 @ 3.20GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte M720-US3, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP78S, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500312CS, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB, Audio: NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S, Monitor: BenQ GL2450, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD Athlon II X2 250: Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 250 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte M720-US3, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP78S, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500312CS, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB, Audio: NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S, Monitor: BenQ GL2450, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Seagate ST3500312CS: Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 250 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte M720-US3, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP78S, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500312CS, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB, Audio: NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S, Monitor: BenQ GL2450, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 . 12.67 |========================================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 . 12.47 |========================================== Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 . 41.91 |========================================== Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 . 42.10 |========================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 . 41.14 |========================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 . 41.28 |========================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 . 12.78 |========================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 . 12.67 |========================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Athlon II X2 250 . 34.25 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500312CS . 26.56 |================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500312CS . 14130.06 |=============================================== hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda5 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500312CS . 58.03 |================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500312CS . 92.66 |================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500312CS . 81.69 |================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SADD Seagate ST3500312CS . 920850.06 |============================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500312CS . 67058 |==================================================