audio encoding on old machine AMD Duron testing with a ECS K7SOM+ v1.0 and AMD Radeon 7200 on Debian 6.0.4 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2012-05-07 11:21: Processor: AMD Duron @ 1.20GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: ECS K7SOM+ v1.0, Chipset: SiS, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 20GB FUJITSU MPF3204A, Graphics: AMD Radeon 7200, Audio: SiS, Monitor: S/T 76V, Network: SiS OS: Debian 6.0.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 (i686), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Core i7-4790K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme6, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 64GB M4-CT064M4SSD2, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Intel Connection OS: LinuxMint 17, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.2.16, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.910, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better 2012-05-07 11:21 . 94.05 |===================================================== Core i7-4790K .... 10.83 |====== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 2012-05-07 11:21 . 49.58 |===================================================== Core i7-4790K .... 4.25 |===== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better 2012-05-07 11:21 . 73.37 |===================================================== Core i7-4790K .... 8.19 |====== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better 2012-05-07 11:21 . 80.00 |===================================================== Core i7-4790K .... 7.52 |=====