post test Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 2048MB on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. comp t: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDX12 + 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 2048MB (700/667MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-27-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.9.00, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.49, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.49, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better comp t . 14627 |=============================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better comp t . 9.80 |================================================================ Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better comp t . 11.53 |=============================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better comp t . 147.08 |==============================================================