Maximus III Extreme 1st test 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 @ 2.27GHz (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 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 Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 14.24 |========================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 3866 |========================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 194.57 |======================================== World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 330.87 |======================================== Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 17.34 |========================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 94.58 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 102 |=========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 1061.17 |======================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 13604 |========================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 63.85 |========================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 152.39 |======================================== FFmpeg 1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 23.43 |========================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 58.43 |========================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 239.55 |======================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 . 22734.69 |======================================