mysys Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 testing with a ASUS H87-PLUS and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7700 1024MB on LinuxMint 16 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS H87-PLUS, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB PLEXTOR PX-128M5 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AALX-0, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: Digital, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 . 9.73 |================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 . 4.77 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 . 12.99 |================================================ WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 . 8.99 |=================================================