Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	179% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Aug 15 '18 at 18:55
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 115 2-Core 230 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 709 69% 564 Pts	64-Core 906 56% 906 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 111 Parallax 99.7 89% 107 fps	MRender 92.4 Gravity 95.5 Splatting 90.6 76% 92.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 512GB-$290 5,772 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 125GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 613 512 585 517 523 505 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	179% Outstanding	Read 1,466 Write 822 Mixed 792 SusWrite 542 201% 905 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 57.5 209% 77.4 MB/s	DQ Read 692 DQ Write 322 DQ Mixed 453 350% 489 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 179% Great: 241%
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 93GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 427 445 450 454 455 453 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 466 Mixed 380 SusWrite 448 100% 446 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 48.3 168% 61.3 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 330 DQ Mixed 293 236% 334 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda Pro 6TB (2016)-$149 321 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 870GB free Firmware: DN04 SusWrite @10s intervals: 136 135 109 110 112 109 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 23% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda Pro 6TB (2016)-$149 321 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 895GB free Firmware: DN03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 107 107 106 107 107 110 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 23% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda Pro 6TB (2016)-$149 321 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 25GB free Firmware: DN03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 133 191 168 157 167 208 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 23% Great: 118%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GB 2,538 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2666 MHz clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	MC Read 41.9 MC Write 44.2 MC Mixed 40 120% 42 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 22.8 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,229x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $763

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16