shadowblade Intel Core i5-6600K testing with a ASUS MAXIMUS VIII GENE and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. Deon: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VIII GENE, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00D + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EFRX-68E, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.3.3-2-ARCH (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.3.0 +, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Deon . 8.60 |================================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Deon . 10.74 |================================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Deon . 4.92 |================================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Deon . 15.05 |================================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Deon . 25468000 |============================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Deon . 111.82 |================================================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Deon . 37.33 |================================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Deon . 108.65 |================================================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Deon . 107.31 |================================================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Deon . 152.67 |================================================================