benchResults Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H and ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel 7 /C210, Monitor: 2353 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-57-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better 1 . 1159 |===================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 1 . 16692.17 |================================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 1 . 17666 |==================================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 1 . 25.07 |==================================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 1 . 31291.37 |=================================================================