Cobi Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a ASRock Z68 Professional Gen3 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS 1024MB on Gentoo 2.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. x264 test i7: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.39GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Professional Gen3, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 5 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AACS-0 + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EARS-00S + 1500GB Seagate ST31500541AS + 500GB 3200, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS 1024MB (589/500MHz) OS: Gentoo 2.1, Kernel: 3.0.4 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 285.05.09, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5 + LLVM 2.8 + ICC, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 3600x1080 unpack-linux: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.39GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Professional Gen3, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 5 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AACS-0 + 1500GB Western Digital WD15EARS-00S + 1500GB Seagate ST31500541AS + 500GB 3200, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS 1024MB (589/500MHz) OS: Gentoo 2.1, Kernel: 3.0.4 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 285.05.09, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5 + LLVM 2.8 + ICC, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 3600x1080 Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better unpack-linux . 12.13 |========================================================= x264 2010-11-22 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better x264 test i7 . 97.40 |=========================================================