Intel Z87 Motherboard Intel Core i7-4770K testing with a ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0 and Intel Haswell Desktop on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Z87: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Intel Haswell Desktop (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2, Display Driver: intel 2.21.12, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.1.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Z87 . 22.90 |============================================================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Z87 . 83 |=============================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Z87 . 4.57 |============================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Z87 . 12.30 |============================================================ Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Z87 . 6.89 |============================================================= N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Z87 . 38.22 |============================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Z87 . 148.70 |=========================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Intel Z87 . 152259 |===========================================================