i7
Intel Core i7 920 testing with a ASUS Rampage II GENE and ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB on Arch via the Phoronix Test Suite.


2011-10-29 12:14: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.21GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II GENE, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FBYS-0 + 64GB CORSAIR CMFSSD-6, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB (750/1004MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Monitor: DELL U2711, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Arch, Kernel: 3.0-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.7.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.88.7 Catalyst 11.8, OpenGL: 3.3.11005, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + Clang 2.9 + LLVM 2.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

i7: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.21GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II GENE, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FBYS-0 + 64GB CORSAIR CMFSSD-6, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB (750/1004MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Monitor: DELL U2711, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Arch, Kernel: 3.0-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.7.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.88.7 Catalyst 11.8, OpenGL: 3.3.11005, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + Clang 2.9 + LLVM 2.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

2011-10-29 15:11: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.21GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II GENE, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FBYS-0 + 64GB CORSAIR CMFSSD-6, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB (750/1004MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Monitor: DELL U2711, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Arch, Kernel: 3.0-ARCH (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.88.7 Catalyst 11.8, OpenGL: 3.3.11005, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + Clang 2.9 + LLVM 2.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

2011-10-29 15:13: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.21GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II GENE, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FBYS-0 + 64GB CORSAIR CMFSSD-6, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB (750/1004MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Monitor: DELL U2711, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Arch, Kernel: 3.0-ARCH (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.88.7 Catalyst 11.8, OpenGL: 3.3.11005, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + Clang 2.9 + LLVM 2.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

cpufreq: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.21GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II GENE, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FBYS-0 + 64GB CORSAIR CMFSSD-6, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB (750/1004MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Monitor: DELL U2711, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Arch, Kernel: 3.0-ARCH (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.88.7 Catalyst 11.8, OpenGL: 3.3.11005, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1 + Clang 2.9 + LLVM 2.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

2011-11-01 11:13: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II GENE, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FBYS-0 + 64GB CORSAIR CMFSSD-6, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB (750/1004MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Monitor: DELL U2711, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Arch, Kernel: 3.0-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.7.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.88.7 Catalyst 11.8, OpenGL: 3.3.11005, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2 + Clang 2.9 + LLVM 2.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

2011-12-29 08:41: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.21GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II GENE, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FBYS-0 + 64GB CORSAIR CMFSSD-6, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB (750/1004MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Monitor: DELL U2711, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Arch, Kernel: 3.1.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.7.4, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fglrx 8.92.6 Catalyst 11.12, OpenGL: 3.3.11318, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2 + Clang 3.0 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440

Mibu Ubuntu: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 15872MB, Disk: 60GB Corsair CSSD-F60 + 500GB MAXTOR STM350032 + 500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-0 + 500GB Western Digital WDC WD5001AALS-0 + 500GB Hitachi HDP72505, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (775/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892

	OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 280.13, OpenGL: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 280.13, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
2011-10-29 12:14 . 58.06 |=====================================================
i7 ............... 55.24 |==================================================
cpufreq .......... 54.81 |==================================================
2011-11-01 11:13 . 55.39 |===================================================
2011-12-29 08:41 . 57.80 |=====================================================
Mibu Ubuntu ...... 52.16 |================================================


7-Zip Compression 9.13
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
i7 ............... 16746 |==================================================
2011-10-29 15:13 . 15678 |===============================================
cpufreq .......... 17078 |===================================================
Mibu Ubuntu ...... 17776 |=====================================================


x264 2010-11-22
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
i7 ............... 92.72  |==============================================
2011-10-29 15:11 . 89.09  |============================================
cpufreq .......... 93.90  |===============================================
Mibu Ubuntu ...... 104.82 |====================================================