default Intel Core i7-3770K testing with a Intel DZ77GA-70K and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB on SUSE LINUX 12.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. bzip2: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DZ77GA-70K, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 2 x 500GB Seagate ST3500320AS + 40GB INTEL SSDSA2M040 + 250GB SAMSUNG SP2504C, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB (850/2052MHz), Audio: C-Media CM8738, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.1.10-1.9-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.7.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.40, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better bzip2 . 7.65 |=================================================================