first of the year
Intel Core i7 920 testing with a ASRock X58 Extreme and AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


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	Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X58 Extreme, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 500GB Hitachi HDS72105 + 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: BenQ FP222Wa, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Ralink RT2600 802.11 MIMO

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-74-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
cpu . 23.89 |==================================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
cpu . 52.95 |==================================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
cpu . 1093.52 |================================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
cpu . 2104 |===================================================================


TSCP 1.81
AI Chess Performance
Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better
cpu . 545025 |=================================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
cpu . 9067.37 |================================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
cpu . 9140.09 |================================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
cpu . 8237.84 |================================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
cpu . 8397.38 |================================================================


World of Padman 1.2
1680 x 1050
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
cpu . 148.17 |=================================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
cpu . 191.17 |=================================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
cpu . 4412333 |================================================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
cpu . 11.22 |==================================================================