gzip 2550k Intel Core i5-2550K testing with a EVGA E682 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1280MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5-2550K: Processor: Intel Core i5-2550K @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: EVGA E682, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 320GB 3200BEV External, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1280MB (607/1674MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-40-generic (i686), Desktop: LXDE 0.5.8, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.18, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 313.18, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2550K . 15.99 |==================================================