results test 1 Intel Xeon X3450 testing with a LENOVO 4220BQ5 and NVIDIA Quadro 600 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. primer test: Processor: Intel Xeon X3450 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4220BQ5, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Western Digital WD2500AAKX-6 + 250GB Western Digital WD2500AAJS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro 600 512MB (640/800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Monitor: X7200A, Network: Intel 82578DM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-29-generic-pae (i686), Desktop: Unity 5.20.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better primer test . 22.59 |========================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better primer test . 11.17 |========================================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better primer test . 19.87 |========================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better primer test . 13.92 |==========================================================