sept2016 Intel Core i5-3450 testing with a MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758) v1.0 and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. arch-120916: Processor: Intel Core i5-3450 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN1 + 2000GB D3 Station, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB (783/1804MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.7.2-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, Compiler: GCC 6.2.1 20160830, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 IOzone 3.405 4GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better arch-120916 . 7940.07 |======================================================== IOzone 3.405 4GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better arch-120916 . 157.27 |========================================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch-120916 . 102.74 |========================================================= Team Fortress 2 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better arch-120916 . 71.63 |========================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better arch-120916 . 12.89 |==========================================================