Calam Intel Core i5-3450 testing with a ASUS P8H77-V and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core on LinuxMint 14 via the Phoronix Test Suite. I 5 roberto: Processor: Intel Core i5-3450 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8H77-V, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250823AS, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Audio: VIA VT1708S, Monitor: HE225DPB, Network: Atheros AR8161 Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.6.7, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 QGears2 XRender + Text Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better I 5 roberto . 146.60 |========================================================= QGears2 XRender + Gears Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better I 5 roberto . 159.39 |========================================================= QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better I 5 roberto . 840.01 |========================================================= Render Bench Phoronix Test Suite v4.0.0 Seconds < Lower Is Better I 5 roberto . 16.51 |==========================================================