i7-4790K flac-mp3 encoding Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a ASRock Z97 Extreme6 and Intel HD 4600 on LinuxMint 17 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Test 1: 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 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Test 1 . 4.05 |================================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Test 1 . 10.85 |===============================================================