Brynde Intel Core i7-4820K testing with a ASRock X79 Extreme4 and XFX AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. meh: Processor: Intel Core i7-4820K @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme4, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F21, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC898, Monitor: M1910S, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-39-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better meh . 5247 |=================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better meh . 11201.82 |=============================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better meh . 12654.36 |=============================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better meh . 27.88 |================================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better meh . 32296.78 |===============================================================