thigobr Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H and Intel Ivybridge Desktop 1536MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 3570K/4200/1866: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR3-1867MHz Samsung, Disk: 256GB Crucial_CT256MX1 + 240GB KINGSTON SH103S3 + 320GB Seagate ST3320418AS + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN1, Graphics: Intel Ivybridge Desktop 1536MB (1150MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: ASUS MG279, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-64-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 19.09 |====================================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 9.71 |======================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 11.49 |====================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 6.39 |======================================================= Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 5.04 |======================================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 261.01 |===================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 10.53 |====================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 10.81 |====================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 27.86 |====================================================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 45.98 |====================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 144.90 |===================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 49.98 |====================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 30.78 |====================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 17241 |====================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 3570K/4200/1866 . 140.88 |=====================================================