pcphsft88 Intel Core i7-3930K testing with a ASUS P9X79 (4801 BIOS) and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 1024MB on LinuxMint 18.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. SSD: Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.80GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 (4801 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2002FAEX-0 + 4001GB My Book 1230 + 6001GB H/W RAID5, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 1024MB (810/896MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B276HUL, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 18.2, Kernel: 4.13.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.111, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: Clang 7.0.0 (SVN 322817) + LLVM 7.0.0svn + CUDA 7.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4480x1440 Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better SSD . 32.61 |================================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better SSD . 51.63 |================================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better SSD . 121.99 |================================================================= Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better SSD . 82.08 |==================================================================