yummi Intel Core i5-2500 testing with a ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB on openSUSE 12.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. mp3@desktop: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz CMX4GX3M1A1600C9, Disk: 128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 + 160GB Western Digital WD1600AAJS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (625/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: openSUSE 12.3, Kernel: 3.7.10-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.11.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.32, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Intel Core i5-2500: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz CMX4GX3M1A1600C9, Disk: 128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 + 160GB Western Digital WD1600AAJS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (625/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: openSUSE 12.3, Kernel: 3.7.10-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.11.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.32, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better mp3@desktop . 15.05 |========================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500 . 5.70 |====================================================