hyperzaphod Intel Core i7-3770K testing with a ASUS P8Z77-V LK and Intel Ivy on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. pgbench_01: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: Intel Ivy, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1152 phpbench_01: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: Intel Ivy, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1152 apache_01: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: Intel Ivy, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1152 build-linux-kernel_01: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: Intel Ivy, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1152 pgbench_02: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: Intel Ivy, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1152 apache_02: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: Intel Ivy, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1152 phpbench_02: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: Intel Ivy, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1152 build-linux-kernel_02: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Ivy DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0, Graphics: Intel Ivy, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1152 unpack-linux_01: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0 + 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2000FYYZ-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-54-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4 PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better pgbench_01 . 241.85 |========================================================= pgbench_02 . 245.79 |========================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better phpbench_01 . 105225 |========================================================= phpbench_02 . 104623 |========================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better apache_01 . 32335.99 |======================================================== apache_02 . 32675.32 |========================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better build-linux-kernel_01 . 78.43 |================================================ build-linux-kernel_02 . 78.60 |================================================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better unpack-linux_01 . 8.93 |=======================================================