marcus Intel Core i7 920 testing with a Alienware 04VWF2 and AMD Radeon HD 5870 1024MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. noc-aio: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Alienware 04VWF2, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5870 1024MB, Audio: Intel 82801JI, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-45-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better noc-aio . 1424.11 |============================================================