shadowblade Intel Core i5-6600K testing with a ASUS MAXIMUS VIII GENE and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. shadowblade: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VIII GENE, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00D + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EFRX-68E, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.3.3-2-ARCH (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.3.0 +, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 z12: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE (MS-7971) v2.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EFRX-68E + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EFRX-68P, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.3.3-2-ARCH (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better shadowblade . 37.33 |========================================================= z12 ......... 38.04 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better shadowblade . 111.82 |========================================================= z12 ......... 92.68 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better shadowblade . 152.67 |========================================================= z12 ......... 148.76 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better shadowblade . 107.31 |========================================================= z12 ......... 91.82 |================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better shadowblade . 108.65 |========================================================= z12 ......... 53.98 |============================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better shadowblade . 25468000 |======================================================= z12 ......... 23255333 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better shadowblade . 15.05 |========================================= z12 ......... 21.44 |========================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better shadowblade . 4.92 |========================================================= z12 ......... 5.11 |=========================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better shadowblade . 10.74 |======================================================== z12 ......... 11.08 |========================================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better shadowblade . 8.60 |======================================================== z12 ......... 9.14 |===========================================================