shitson Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a ASUS P8P67 PRO and AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB on Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. main: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 5.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 PRO, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Hitachi HDS72202 + 120GB OCZ AGILITY3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB (880/1375MHz), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: DELL U2711, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Linux, Kernel: 3.12.0-1-00044-gc56b097-dirty (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0-devel (git-723f047) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better main . 25169 |================================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better main . 6.64 |================================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better main . 10.58 |================================================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better main . 99.65 |=================================================================