bahh Intel Core i7-6700 testing with a ASUS Z170-DELUXE and MSI AMD Radeon R9 290X 8192MB on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. kernel compile: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z170-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake /DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 256GB ADATA SP900, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R9 290X 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: S24B420, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better kernel compile . 89.70 |=======================================================