audio_i7 Intel Core i7-6700 testing with a ASRock Z170M-ITX/ac and Intel Skylake on SUSE LINUX 42.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-6700: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z170M-ITX/ac, Chipset: Intel Skylake /DRAM, Memory: 2 x 16384 MB DDR4-2133MHz, Disk: 250GB Western Digital WD2500BEKT-0 + 240GB SanDisk SDSSDHII, Graphics: Intel Skylake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: SUSE LINUX 42.1, Kernel: 4.1.34-33-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-6700 . 7.05 |==================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-6700 . 6.74 |==================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-6700 . 13.57 |===================================================