sadie-audio Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 testing with a ASUS P5Q SE PLUS and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5Q SE PLUS, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 204GB Maxtor 6B200P0 + 82GB Maxtor 6Y080P0 + 500GB Seagate ST9500420AS + 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, Audio: VIA VT1708S, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.14.12-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20171224 + Clang 5.0.1 + CUDA 9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 640x480 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 . 20.06 |============================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 . 18.39 |============================================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 . 12.60 |============================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 5.1 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 . 9.80 |===============================================