Aorus X5, ~2 years heavy use, fresh Arctic MX-4 thermal paste Intel Core i7-5700HQ testing with a GIGABYTE X5 and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4096MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal: Processor: Intel Core i7-5700HQ @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: GIGABYTE X5, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U- DMI, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 1000GB HGST HTS721010A9 + 2 x 256GB LITEON IT L8T-25, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4096MB (949/2505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC282, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.7.0-2.1-liquorix-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.44, OpenGL: 4.5.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1620 World of Padman 1.2 2880 x 1620 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 476.93 |======================================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 2880 x 1620 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 14.14 |========================================= Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 2880 x 1620 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 61.15 |========================================= Unigine Tropics 1.3 2880 x 1620 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 56.06 |========================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 20524.84 |====================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 14028.46 |====================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 15729.50 |====================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 15776.58 |====================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 4.83 |========================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 9709667 |======================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 6539 |========================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 162.34 |======================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 1617.63 |======================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 19687 |========================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 34.98 |========================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 10.75 |========================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 29 |============================================ Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 76.27 |========================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 6.58 |========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 12.56 |========================================= FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 11.16 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better aorus_x5_aftermarket-thermal . 25637.61 |======================================