n Intel Core i7-5930K testing with a ASUS RAMPAGE V EXTREME and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB on Ubuntu 15.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. no: Processor: Intel Core i7-5930K @ 3.70GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS RAMPAGE V EXTREME, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 + 256GB TS256GSSD370, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.63, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + CUDA 6.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better no . 6.56 |==================================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better no . 12.12 |=================================================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better no . 9.00 |====================================================================