audio-old Intel Core i5-4590 testing with a ASRock Z97X Killer (P2.60 BIOS) and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB on LinuxMint 19.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5-4590: Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97X Killer (P2.60 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 24GB, Disk: 3 x 512GB Samsung SSD 850 + 128GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB (1176/2700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: LG HDR 4K, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x OS: LinuxMint 19.3, Kernel: 4.15.0-88-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 440.64, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 7.5.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-4590 . 11.43 |=================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-4590 . 10.28 |===================================================