basic Intel Core i5-4430 testing with a ASRock Z87 Pro3 and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. firstrun: Processor: Intel Core i5-4430 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Pro3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (540/2700MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.910, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better firstrun . 5357 |============================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better firstrun . 7753.22 |=========================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better firstrun . 8297.78 |=========================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better firstrun . 29.52 |============================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better firstrun . 47319.98 |==========================================================