pg Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 testing with a ASUS P9X79 (4701 BIOS) and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB on Gentoo/Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 (4701 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1866MT/s, Disk: 1500GB SAMSUNG HD155UI + 2000GB Western Digital WD2003FZEX-0 + 640GB Western Digital WD6400AAKS-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EVVS-63M, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB, Audio: Intel C600/X79, Monitor: LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.14.8-gentoo-r1 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 . 51157 |================================================ Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 . 20.44 |================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 . 77.50 |================================================ Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 . 56.02 |================================================ FFmpeg 3.4.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 . 5.63 |=================================================