first Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a Gigabyte Z97X-SOC-CF and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. average: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-SOC-CF, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0 + 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-0, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB (1278/3505MHz), Audio: Intel 9 Family HD Audio, Monitor: LG LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.0.0-2-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.59, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150304 + Clang 3.6.0 + LLVM 3.6.0 + CUDA 7.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1080 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better average . 85.03 |==============================================================