samuele Intel Core i7-4770K testing with a ASUS Z87I-PRO and Intel HD 4600 on LinuxMint 16 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Base Configuration: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z87I-PRO, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.0.14, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.904, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Base Configuration . 74.82 |===================================================