Dante Intel Core i7-3820 testing with a ASUS P9X79 and AMD Radeon HD 3600 512MB on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Testbed: Processor: Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P9X79, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 320GB Seagate ST3320820AS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3600 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL 1704FPT, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Testbed . 48.84 |============================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Testbed . 12736.21 |=========================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Testbed . 13527.21 |=========================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Testbed . 4398 |===============================================================