ok Intel Xeon E5-1607 v2 testing with a Dell 09M8Y8 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4096MB on LinuxMint 18.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. wat: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1607 v2 @ 3.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 09M8Y8, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 20480MB, Disk: 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRZ-00W + 240GB SanDisk SDSSDA24 + 256GB OCZ VERTEX450, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4096MB (1278/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC3220, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 18.1, Kernel: 4.9.1-040901-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.2.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.09, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4160x1440 ET: Quake Wars Demo 4160 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better wat . 118.70 |================================================================= World of Padman 1.2 4160 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better wat . 442.43 |================================================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better wat . 20496.04 |=============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better wat . 20326.54 |=============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better wat . 22601.40 |=============================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better wat . 22782.72 |=============================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better wat . 6194.52 |================================================================ Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 8.51 |=================================================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better wat . 849706 |================================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better wat . 5165333 |================================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better wat . 2252 |=================================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better wat . 89.18 |================================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better wat . 88.52 |================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better wat . 143 |==================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better wat . 70 |===================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better wat . 86 |===================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better wat . 126 |==================================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better wat . 1287.43 |================================================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better wat . 10203 |================================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 44.20 |================================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 17.71 |================================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 180 |==================================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 95.52 |================================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 8.98 |=================================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 16.27 |================================================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 18.18 |================================================================== POV-Ray 3.7.0 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better wat . 274.94 |================================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better wat . 16552.93 |===============================================================