test Intel Core i7-3770 testing with a ASUS P8Z77-M and Intel Ivy on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-M, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 999GB MR9240-4i, Graphics: Intel Ivy (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-31-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Intel Core i7-2600: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 60GB Corsair CSSD-F60 + 500GB MAXTOR STM350032 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 + 500GB Western Digital WD5001AALS-0 + 500GB Hitachi HDP72505, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2 1024MB (775/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.51, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.51, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better test ............... 293.93 |================================================== Intel Core i7-2600 . 230.39 |======================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better test ............... 649.90 |================================================== Intel Core i7-2600 . 422.83 |================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better test ............... 709.75 |=================== Intel Core i7-2600 . 1840.70 |=================================================