bruceiozone Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a ASUS P8Q77-M (1302 BIOS) and Intel Gen7 on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. io2: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5690 @ 2.00GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0CRH6C, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 6 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MT/s, Disk: 8002GB Western Digital WD80EMAZ-00W + 10001GB Western Digital WD100EZAZ-11 + 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 + 512GB ADATA SU800, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420, Audio: Analog Devices AD1984A, Network: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-51-generic (x86_64), Compiler: CUDA 10.1, File-System: btrfs isaaciozone: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Q77-M (1302 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 4096 MB + 8192 MB + 4096 MB + 8192 MB DDR3-1600MT/s, Disk: 128GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 + 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14, Graphics: Intel Gen7 (1150MHz), Audio: VIA VT1708S, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-50-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4 IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better io2 ......... 4762 |=============================== isaaciozone . 9125 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better io2 ......... 3605 |============================================== isaaciozone . 4631 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better io2 ......... 381 |============================================================ isaaciozone . 161 |========================= IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better io2 ......... 355 |============================================================ isaaciozone . 169 |============================= IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better io2 ......... 4898 |=============================== isaaciozone . 9457 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better io2 ......... 379 |============================================================ isaaciozone . 175 |============================