test1 Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5-3570K: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1000GB Seagate ST31000524AS + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048MB (549/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-30-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-3570K . 14763 |================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-3570K . 9.62 |=================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-3570K . 12.20 |================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-3570K . 121.16 |=================================================