ebony-results Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a ASUS P8P67 LE and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. INTEL SSDSA2CW12: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 LE, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSA2CW12 + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EADS-00P + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EADS-00S, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB (930/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.88, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.88, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Intel Core i5-2500K: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 LE, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSA2CW12 + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EADS-00P + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EADS-00S, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB (930/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.88, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.88, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSA2CW12 . 141.40 |==================================================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 61.17 |================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 12.17 |==================================================