dave Intel Core i3-3220 testing with a ASUS P8Z77-M and Intel Ivy Bridge on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. i3 3220: Processor: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-M, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD PM81, Graphics: Intel Ivy Bridge, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-030900rc3-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.4, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.6 + CUDA 4.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better i3 3220 . 86.33 |============================================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better i3 3220 . 490978 |=============================================================