Audio 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 testing with a EVGA Classified SR-2 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4096MB on openSUSE 13.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2x intel xeon x5550 stock: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.66GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-2, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 6 x 4096 MB 1333MHz Corsair CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9, Disk: 252GB ServeRAID M1015, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4096MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GPU 40 HDMI/DP, Monitor: HP 22xi + SONY TV, Network: NetEffect NE020 10Gb Accelerated OS: openSUSE 13.1, Kernel: 3.11.10-7-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.11.5, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3.901 (1.14.4 RC 1), Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.117, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.117, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1848 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better 2x intel xeon x5550 stock . 9.25 |============================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 2x intel xeon x5550 stock . 9.85 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better 2x intel xeon x5550 stock . 23.78 |============================================ WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better 2x intel xeon x5550 stock . 14.32 |============================================