snagar-mint13 Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a ASUS P8Z68-V PRO and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Corsair Force 3 - Intel Core i7-2600K: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB Corsair Force 3 + 500GB Seagate ST3500320AS + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EALS-002 + 500GB Hitachi HDP72505 + 640GB Western Digital WD6400AAKS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.43, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.43, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 chess test: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB Corsair Force 3 + 500GB Seagate ST3500320AS + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EALS-002 + 500GB Hitachi HDP72505 + 640GB Western Digital WD6400AAKS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.43, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.43, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Corsair Force 3 - Intel Core i7-2600K . 603 |================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force 3 - Intel Core i7-2600K . 12981.35 |============================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force 3 - Intel Core i7-2600K . 13765.43 |============================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Corsair Force 3 - Intel Core i7-2600K . 46.66 |================================ Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Corsair Force 3 - Intel Core i7-2600K . 33193.19 |============================= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better chess test . 76.58 |===========================================================