first audio test Intel Core i7-4930K testing with a Gigabyte X79-UD3 and Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Default Clock: Processor: Intel Core i7-4930K @ 3.90GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X79-UD3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 76GB, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (324/324MHz), Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.39, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + CUDA 7.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Default Clock . 6.22 |========================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Default Clock . 7.98 |========================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Default Clock . 13.34 |========================================================