valerino-i5 Intel Core i5-3450 testing with a ASUS P8Z77-M and Intel HD 2500 on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. SAMSUNG HD103UJ - Intel Core i5-3450: Processor: Intel Core i5-3450 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-M, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ + 320GB MAXTOR STM332082 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00L, Graphics: Intel HD 2500 (1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.904, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better SAMSUNG HD103UJ - Intel Core i5-3450 . 4360 |================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better SAMSUNG HD103UJ - Intel Core i5-3450 . 5126.58 |=============================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better SAMSUNG HD103UJ - Intel Core i5-3450 . 5501.59 |=============================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better SAMSUNG HD103UJ - Intel Core i5-3450 . 35.71 |================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better SAMSUNG HD103UJ - Intel Core i5-3450 . 28972.94 |==============================