jackhmrz Intel Core i7-3770K testing with a Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H and AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 3770K stock: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB SAMSUNG HD204UI + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1 + 120GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC898, Monitor: VX2450, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 11827.87 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 12541.39 |======================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 33.36 |========================================================= 3770K stock . 33.79 |========================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 11904.10 |======================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 11875.86 |======================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 12185.40 |======================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 12333.32 |======================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 5.90 |=========================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 16496833 |======================================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 116.96 |========================================================= x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 150.35 |========================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 190 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 120 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 81 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 157 |============================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 1657.95 |======================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 19665 |========================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 8.39 |=========================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 92 |============================================================= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 73.07 |========================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 5.36 |=========================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 13.05 |========================================================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 15.83 |========================================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 3770K stock . 623 |============================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 129.53 |========================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 3697.08 |======================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 3770K stock . 33985.53 |=======================================================