firstrunphoronix Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. phoronix_733: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 + 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 + 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-22M, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.18.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.64, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.64, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better phoronix_733 . 50.10 |========================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better phoronix_733 . 14325.77 |====================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better phoronix_733 . 15161.58 |====================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better phoronix_733 . 5515 |==========================================================