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Intel Core i7-3820 testing with a ASUS P9X79 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB on Fedora 16 (Verne) via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Stock - Energy Saving: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P9X79, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB OCZ PETROL, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB (951/2178MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection + Broadcom BCM4321 802.11b/g/n

	OS: Fedora 16 (Verne), Kernel: 3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 290.10, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

now with 16 gb memory: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P9X79, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB OCZ PETROL, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB (951/2178MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection + Broadcom BCM4321 802.11b/g/n

	OS: Fedora 16 (Verne), Kernel: 3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 290.10, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

from 1333 to 1600: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P9X79, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB OCZ PETROL, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB (951/2178MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Fedora 16 (Verne), Kernel: 3.2.9-1.fc16.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 290.10, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Stock - Energy Saving . 79.17 |================================================
now with 16 gb memory . 78.39 |================================================
from 1333 to 1600 ..... 73.92 |=============================================