pepetram Intel Core i7-3612QM testing with a Acer EA50_HC_CR and Intel Ivy Bridge on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-3612QM: Processor: Intel Core i7-3612QM @ 2.10GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Acer EA50_HC_CR, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 500GB TOSHIBA MQ01ABD0, Graphics: Intel Ivy Bridge, Audio: Realtek ALC269VB, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4313 802.11b/g/n OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (i686), Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 13108.84 |============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 11496.69 |============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 11477.06 |============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Floating-Point Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 13262.99 |============================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 12804.60 |============================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 11791.21 |============================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 11570.66 |============================================== CacheBench Read Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 2350.98 |=============================================== CacheBench Write Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-3612QM . 7794.73 |===============================================