i5 apres microcode
Intel Core i5-7300HQ testing with a HP 825D v83.45 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2048MB on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


i5 apres microcode: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-7300HQ @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 825D v83.45, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 1000GB HGST HTS721010A9, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2048MB (1354/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC295, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 7265

	OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 390.12, OpenGL: 4.5.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


NoiseLevel
Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1
Activity Level < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 43200 |===================================================


Bork File Encrypter 1.4
File Encryption Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 8.16 |====================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 16905333 |================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 28.68 |===================================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 11.56 |===================================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 6.01 |====================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 10.55 |===================================================


Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1
WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode
Seconds < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 9.18 |====================================================


FFmpeg 3.3.3
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 7.96 |====================================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Total
ms < Lower Is Better
i5 apres microcode . 21380 |===================================================