Audio-Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 testing with a ASUS P8H77-M PRO and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Audio-Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8H77-M PRO, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/Ivy, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz Kingston, Disk: 1999GB Logical Volume, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core, Audio: Intel 7 /C210, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.10.23-xxxx-std-ipv6-64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio-Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 . 5.28 |=========================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio-Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 . 4.91 |=========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio-Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 . 12.93 |========================================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio-Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 . 7.48 |=========================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better Audio-Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 . 8.89 |===========================================