fraoc2 Intel Core i7-4770K testing with a ASUS Z87-A and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970/R9 280X 3072MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 4.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z87-A, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EZEX-00B, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970/R9 280X 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.1-031301-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 5813 |================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 14854.38 |============================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 15853.40 |============================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 20.65 |================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 39528.81 |=============================