test1 Intel Core i7-4790 testing with a ASUS Z97-A and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test1: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB SanDisk SDSSDHII + 3 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1000DHTZ-0 + 1000GB Hitachi HDS72101, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (135/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-34-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 361.42, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better test1 . 8.18 |================================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better test1 . 5.71 |================================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better test1 . 11.09 |================================================================