aenc1 Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a ASRock Z77 Pro3 and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 on Gentoo 2.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. nothing special: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Pro3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 160GB Seagate ST3160815AS + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ + 500GB 5000AAK External, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5770 (860/1200MHz), Audio: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 3.11.6-gentoo (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better nothing special . 5.51 |======================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better nothing special . 5.11 |======================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better nothing special . 13.37 |====================================================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better nothing special . 7.59 |======================================================= WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better nothing special . 9.29 |=======================================================