example Intel Core i7 920 testing with a EVGA 132-BL-E758 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2048MB on Fedora 22 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test 1: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: EVGA 132-BL-E758, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 160GB Seagate ST3160812AS + 750GB Western Digital WD7501AALS-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2048MB (900/2004MHz), Audio: Creative Labs SB X-Fi, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.0.4-303.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.21, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2646x1024 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better test 1 . 119.76 |==============================================================