pclaptops Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 testing with a ASUS P5Q and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB on LinuxMint 18 via the Phoronix Test Suite. diagnostic test: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5Q, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10R, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 4GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Monitor: DELL 1708FP, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 OS: LinuxMint 18, Kernel: 4.4.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.6, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: overlayfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Add MB/s > Higher Is Better diagnostic test . 3685.87 |==================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better diagnostic test . 3789.76 |==================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better diagnostic test . 3779.56 |==================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Floating-Point Add MB/s > Higher Is Better diagnostic test . 4210.50 |==================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Add MB/s > Higher Is Better diagnostic test . 4281.00 |==================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better diagnostic test . 3648.94 |==================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better diagnostic test . 3695.12 |====================================================