linuxkernel Intel Xeon E5-1620 0 testing with a ASUS P9X79 PRO and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1536MB on Fedora 23 via the Phoronix Test Suite. linuxkernel: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1620 0 @ 5.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 PRO, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 500GB APPLE HDD HTS547 + 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1536MB (797/2025MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC898, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.4.6-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 361.42, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better linuxkernel . 128.24 |=========================================================