marcus Intel Core i7 930 testing with a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R and Sapphire NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 512MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. vps1-aio: Processor: Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.79GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Hitachi HDS72101, Graphics: Sapphire NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-61-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better vps1-aio . 1055.91 |===========================================================