Pirmin Müller Intel Core i7-3930K testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH X79 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. i7 extreme: Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH X79, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST32000641AS + 240GB KINGSTON SH100S3 + 1000GB External HDD, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB (742/1900MHz), Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better i7 extreme . 38864.94 |======================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better i7 extreme . 27.52 |=========================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better i7 extreme . 20853.04 |======================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better i7 extreme . 22365.20 |========================================================