stan Intel Core i7 860 testing with a Gigabyte H55M-USB3 and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 2048MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD5000BPVT-0: Processor: Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.79GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H55M-USB3, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000BPVT-0 + 1000GB Elements 10A8, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 2048MB, Audio: Intel 5 /3400, Monitor: W1934, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-56-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000BPVT-0 . 3677 |========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000BPVT-0 . 10242.58 |====================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000BPVT-0 . 10915.67 |====================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD5000BPVT-0 . 35.15 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000BPVT-0 . 20342.96 |======================================