Adam Intel Core i7 920 testing with a Gigabyte EX58-UD5 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB on LinuxMint 17 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test run: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-UD5, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 128GB PLEXTOR PX-128M3 + 500GB Hitachi HTS72755 + 4 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (540/2700MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GPU 60 HDMI/DP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17, Kernel: 3.13.0-30-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.2.13, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: modesetting 0.8.1, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better test run . 10.93 |============================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better test run . 22.95 |============================================================= Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better test run . 8.77 |============================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better test run . 13.36 |============================================================= Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better test run . 12.40 |=============================================================