fx AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2048MB on LinuxMint 17.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ AGILITY3 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL001-9VT1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR5418 Wireless OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 4.2.3-040203-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.13, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 182.00 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 113.64 |============================================== AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 111.72 |============================================= AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 111.87 |============================================= High Performance Conjugate Gradient 1.1 Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.3 AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core . 1.49 |================================================