msi x99 Intel Core i7-5960X testing with a MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB on Fedora 21 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-5960X: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.17.0-301.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.0, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1 20140930, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 28.64 |================================================== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 287.99 |================================================= FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5960X . 20.03 |==================================================