antevens Intel Core i7-6700K testing with a Gigabyte Z170N-Gaming 5 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB on LinuxMint 17.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. first: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170N-Gaming 5, Chipset: Intel Device 191f, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 3001GB Western Digital WD30EFRX-68A + 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB OCZ VERTEX3 MI, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB, Audio: Intel Device a170, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit + Intel Wireless 8260 OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better first . 6.04 |================================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better first . 5.87 |================================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better first . 11.53 |================================================================