Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	16.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	143% 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 P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 01 '16 at 04:11
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 96.7 1-Core 115 2-Core 222 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 421 8-Core 563 62% 492 Pts	64-Core 587 36% 587 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-Ti-$152 36,698 User benchmarks, average bench 14% EVGA(3842 3653) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	16.6% Very poor	Lighting 20.7 Reflection 18.5 Parallax 23.7 17% 20.9 fps	MRender 24 Gravity 18.5 Splatting 17.6 16% 20 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 16.6% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 950GB 542 User benchmarks, average bench 135% 390GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	143% Outstanding	Read 950 Write 949 Mixed 953 213% 951 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 88.2 4K Mixed 29.2 149% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 42.8 DQ Write 89.1 DQ Mixed 29 33% 53.6 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 143% Great: 183%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8730 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 706 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 794 (0A) Spinup retry count 114 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 184 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 15 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 850 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 201864642600 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 99 99 409 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 202 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 63% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 466GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 177369893 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 827 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 15 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 660978091 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 55022 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 830 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032860 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 141 (BE) vendor-specific 68 55 555089952 (C2) HDA temperature 32 45 64424509472 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 23 177369893 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 103328323259404 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1034349 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2255629397	61.5% Good	Read 88.9 Write 125 Mixed 111 82% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.46 102% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1866 C8 4x4GB 432 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	MC Read 41.7 MC Write 46.3 MC Mixed 41.3 123% 43.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 15 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 51.3 78% 51.3 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 109%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	650x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	229x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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