Rummages Intel Core i7-3930K testing with a Intel DX79SR and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 4096MB on LinuxMint 17.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. hdparm Timed Disk Reads 20150126: Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SR, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 4096MB (901/667MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 17.1, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 1080 Playback 20150126: Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SR, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 4096MB (901/667MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 17.1, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda3 MB/s > Higher Is Better hdparm Timed Disk Reads 20150126 . 498.22 |==================================== 1080p H.264 Video Playback 1.1 Video Decoding: OS X CoreVideo Percent 1080 Playback 20150126 . MIN: 0.3 AVG: 0.8 MAX: 2.6