first Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 testing with a Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3 and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB on Ubuntu 15.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ubuntu 15.04 with GTX 980: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/Ivy, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB 1333MHz, Disk: 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER1 + 240GB Corsair Neutron + 750GB SAMSUNG HD753LJ, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: Eizo FS2333, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Ralink RT2500 Wireless 802.11bg OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-30-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.96, OpenGL: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.96, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 with GTX 980 . 355.83 |=========================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 with GTX 980 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.8 MAX: 17.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 with GTX 980 . 346.44 |=========================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 with GTX 980 . 95.65 |============================================ Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 with GTX 980 . 95.40 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Windowed Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 with GTX 980 . 121437 |=========================================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.04 with GTX 980 . 112890 |===========================================