test 2 Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a ASRock Z77 Pro4 and Intel Ivy Bridge on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. my test 2: 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 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better my test 2 . 16386.12 |========================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better my test 2 . 17386.87 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better my test 2 . 42.54 |============================================================