prefer-max-performance-valley Intel Core i7-5820K testing with a Gigabyte X99-UD3-CF and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on LinuxMint 17 via the Phoronix Test Suite. MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD3-CF, Chipset: Intel Haswell-E DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1000GB 10EADS External, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (540/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: LinuxMint 17, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.2.16, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 . 81.45 |===========================================