iotest Intel Core i5-6500 testing with a ASUS H170I-PLUS D3 (0604 BIOS) and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5-6500 - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS H170I-PLUS D3 (0604 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 256GB M4-CT256M4SSD2 + 4001GB Seagate ST4000LM016-1N21 + 128GB C400-MTFDDAK128M + 2GB DISK 2.0, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1088/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: P24W-5 ECO, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.130, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-6500 - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 37.01 |===================== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i5-6500 - ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 48.84 |=====================