Viking73 Intel Core i5-3570K at 4.4 GHz testing with a ASUS P8Z77-V and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB on LinuxMint 2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Canopus: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Crucial_CT512MX1 + 500GB CT500BX100SSD1 + 120GB KINGSTON SH103S3 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EFRX-68A, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1240/3505MHz), Audio: Intel 7 /C210, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: LinuxMint 2, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.30, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3440x1440 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Canopus . 136.87 |=============================================================