ubermaki Intel Core i7-3820 testing with a ASRock X79 Extreme9 and AMD Radeon HD 7970 3072MB on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. um_bz1: Processor: Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme9, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 6 x 146GB MegaRAID 8308ELP + 256GB M4-CT256M4SSD2 + 150GB Western Digital WD1500ADFS-0 + 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLFS-0 + 500GB Seagate ST3500630AS + 2 x 3001GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7970 3072MB, Audio: Creative CA0132, Monitor: ASUS VK266H, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-31-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.20.5, OpenGL: 2.1.2, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 m4: Processor: Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme9, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 6 x 146GB MegaRAID 8308ELP + 256GB M4-CT256M4SSD2 + 150GB Western Digital WD1500ADFS-0 + 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLFS-0 + 500GB Seagate ST3500630AS + 2 x 3001GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7970 3072MB, Audio: Creative CA0132, Monitor: ASUS VK266H, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-31-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.20.5, OpenGL: 2.1.2, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better um_bz1 . 8.22 |================================================================ m4 ..... 8.23 |================================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better m4 . 5173 |====================================================================