LehnuxPC Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a ASUS P8Z77-V LK and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. i5 with watercooling: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR9227 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.9.90, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.32, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.32, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better i5 with watercooling . 6000 |================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better i5 with watercooling . 12797.85 |============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better i5 with watercooling . 13682.36 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better i5 with watercooling . 27.21 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better i5 with watercooling . 41923.83 |==============================================