tim Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a ASRock Z68 Pro3 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 HD 1280MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. tiobench-cfq-2: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Pro3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ AGILITY3 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 HD 1280MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: IPS236, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 tiobench-cfq-3: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Pro3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ AGILITY3 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 HD 1280MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: IPS236, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tiobench-cfq-2 . 15299.26 |==================================================== tiobench-cfq-3 . 15039.40 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tiobench-cfq-2 . 18.71 |======================================================= tiobench-cfq-3 . 15.61 |============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tiobench-cfq-2 . 11819.94 |==================================================== tiobench-cfq-3 . 11902.52 |==================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tiobench-cfq-2 . 2.55 |================================================== tiobench-cfq-3 . 2.84 |========================================================