x79 Intel Core i7-3930K testing with a ASRock X79 Extreme9 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. x79: Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme9, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB M4-CT256M4SSD2 + 128GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB (732/1900MHz), Audio: Creative CA0132, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1360x768 Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better x79 . 21764.86 |=============================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better x79 . 33.96 |================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better x79 . 24118.15 |=============================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better x79 . 23662.59 |===============================================================