Intel’s Core i7 5960X Is Fast & Wonderful Under Linux

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After my first X99 motherboard burned up in a strange situation, since yesterday my Core i7 5960X Haswell-E system started working wonderfully with Linux after using a different motherboard. I’ve been hammering the system hard for the past day and no X99/i7-5960X issues have come about (albeit I’ve refrained from doing any overclocking or DDR4 tweaking yet) and this high-end $1000+ (USD) CPU is running great under Linux…

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