audio Intel Core i7-4770K testing with a Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H-CF and Intel Haswell IGP on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. audooTest: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 82GB Maxtor 6Y080M0, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: S23B300, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-30-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better audooTest . 8.97 |============================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better audooTest . 4.54 |============================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better audooTest . 11.71 |============================================================ WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better audooTest . 8.20 |=============================================================