Audio Intel Core i5-3570S Intel Core i5-3570S testing with a Intel DH61AG and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Audio Intel Core i5-3570S: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570S @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH61AG, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz Kingston, Disk: 1000GB Hitachi HUA72201, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.10.23-xxxx-std-ipv6-64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio Intel Core i5-3570S . 5.52 |============================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio Intel Core i5-3570S . 5.11 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio Intel Core i5-3570S . 13.50 |============================================ Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio Intel Core i5-3570S . 7.79 |============================================= WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio Intel Core i5-3570S . 9.28 |=============================================