Don_01 Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on LinuxMint 17.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 01: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 5.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17.3, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better 01 . 6357 |==================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 01 . 17735.83 |================================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 01 . 18882.41 |================================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 01 . 24.49 |=================================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 01 . 40570.06 |================================================================