my test 1 Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a ASRock Z77 Pro4 and Intel Ivy Bridge on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. my 1 test: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Pro4, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AUDX-6, Graphics: Intel Ivy Bridge, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: HP S2331, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: intel 2.20.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better my 1 test . 118.84 |===========================================================