Baseline Intel Core i9-7900X testing with a ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE (3105 BIOS) and ASUS AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Air Cooler: Processor: Intel Core i9-7900X @ 4.30GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE (3105 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 1024GB INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8 + 256GB Western Digital WDS256G1X0C-00ENX0 + 4001GB Western Digital WD4004FZWX-0 + 250GB Hitachi HTS54252, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB (1630/945MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: C27HG7x, Network: Intel I219-V + Intel I211 + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 5.8.12-arch1-1 (x86_64), Desktop: Sway, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8 + Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 (LLVM 10.0.1), Vulkan: 1.2.131, Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 10.0.1 + LLVM 10.0.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Water Cooler: Processor: Intel Core i9-7900X @ 4.50GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE (3105 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 1024GB INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8 + 256GB Western Digital WDS256G1X0C-00ENX0 + 4001GB Western Digital WD4004FZWX-0, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB (1630/945MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: C27HG7x, Network: Intel I219-V + Intel I211 + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 5.8.10-17-tkg-upds (x86_64), Desktop: Sway, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8 + Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 (LLVM 10.0.1), Vulkan: 1.2.131, Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 10.0.1 + LLVM 10.0.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 CPU Overclock + GPU Undervolt: Processor: Intel Core i9-7900X @ 4.50GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE (3105 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 1024GB INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8 + 256GB Western Digital WDS256G1X0C-00ENX0 + 4001GB Western Digital WD4004FZWX-0, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB (1630/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: C27HG7x, Network: Intel I219-V + Intel I211 + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 5.8.12-20-tkg-upds (x86_64), Desktop: Sway, Display Server: X Server 1.20.9 + Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.9, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 (LLVM 10.0.1), Vulkan: 1.2.131, Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 10.0.1 + LLVM 10.0.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: Ultra - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Air Cooler .................... 17.2 |====================================== Water Cooler .................. 17.4 |====================================== CPU Overclock + GPU Undervolt . 18.8 |========================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Air Cooler .................... 82.26 |======================================== Water Cooler .................. 81.97 |======================================== CPU Overclock + GPU Undervolt . 74.63 |====================================