performance trial first: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77-D3H, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 100GB Patriot Inferno + 600GB Western Digital WD6000HLHX-0 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER1, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048MB, Audio: VIA VT2020, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-135-generic (i686), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better first . 497 |================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 12551.05 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 12546.97 |============================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better first . 36.13 |================================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better first . 19561.40 |=============================================================