Sandy Bridge Linux 3.17 Kernel, "x264 2014-01-09 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",52.36,54.88,55.57,54.75,54.91 "Linux 3.17 20140820",54.34,57.18,57.26,56.85,57.13 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",35.21,34.92,35.06 "Linux 3.17 20140820",34.9,34.91,34.93 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",32.81,31.7,33.3 "Linux 3.17 20140820",32.48,31.73,33.03 "John The Ripper 1.8.0 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",1828,1825,1828 "Linux 3.17 20140820",1862,1862,1862 "John The Ripper 1.8.0 - Test: Traditional DES", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",3100000,3106000,3096000 "Linux 3.17 20140820",3126000,3122000,3116000 "John The Ripper 1.8.0 - Test: MD5", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",25040,25040,25040 "Linux 3.17 20140820",25600,25600,25650 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",149,147,143 "Linux 3.17 20140820",142,139,141 "Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",3580,3810,3830,3800 "Linux 3.17 20140820",3460,3500,3290 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",250.80957484245,246.41604208946,247.30060386658 "Linux 3.17 20140820",245.37559318542,241.10262322426,240.98213887215 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",82.966,83.001,83.01 "Linux 3.17 20140820",82.47,82.498,82.518 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "Linux 3.16.0",25.471392154694,25.164510965347,25.085651874542,25.486112833023,25.219031095505 "Linux 3.17 20140820",24.332029104233,19.65301990509,19.622370004654,21.486802816391,19.563389062881,21.094658851624,20.767354011536,20.898647069931,20.938373088837,20.873921871185