m3x Intel Core i7 875K testing with a ASUS Maximus III Extreme and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0: Processor: Intel Core i7 875K @ 3.45GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Maximus III Extreme, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (725/1800MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GPU 12 HDMI/DP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.18.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 4682 |========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 14226.51 |====================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 14900.55 |====================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 49.43 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 27752.73 |======================================