ratal Intel Core i7 920 testing with a ASUS P6T DELUXE V2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB on Debian 7.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 7 zip compression: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6T DELUXE V2, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 750GB Hitachi HDS72107 + 165GB HDS722516VLSA80 + 128GB OCZ VERTEX4 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB (850/2100MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.9.11 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.88, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.88, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 7 Zip compression wheezy stock kernel 3.2: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6T DELUXE V2, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 750GB Hitachi HDS72107 + 165GB HDS722516VLSA80 + 128GB OCZ VERTEX4 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB (850/2100MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.88, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.88, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 wheezy stock kernel 3.2: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6T DELUXE V2, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 750GB Hitachi HDS72107 + 165GB HDS722516VLSA80 + 128GB OCZ VERTEX4 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB (850/2100MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1989B, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.88, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.88, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 wheezy kernel 3.4: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6T DELUXE V2, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 750GB Hitachi HDS72107 + 165GB HDS722516VLSA80 + 128GB OCZ VERTEX4 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB (850/2100MHz), Audio: Intel 82801JI, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 7.2, Kernel: 3.4.67 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.88, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.88, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 7 zip compression ......................... 13915 |============================ 7 Zip compression wheezy stock kernel 3.2 . 11383 |======================= wheezy kernel 3.4 ......................... 11069 |====================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better wheezy stock kernel 3.2 . 33.16 |==============================================