Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	105% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '18 at 20:22
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	34%

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PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel @ 3.20GHz 61 User benchmarks, average bench 80% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 106 2-Core 205 79% 135 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 609 65% 516 Pts	64-Core 798 49% 798 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 417.22 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 153 Parallax 131 116% 142 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 138 Splatting 113 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SK hynix SC311 SATA 1TB 254 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 405GB free (System drive) Firmware: 70000P10 SusWrite @10s intervals: 467 451 437 434 416 353 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 476 Mixed 427 SusWrite 426 102% 455 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 76 4K Mixed 42 138% 49.1 MB/s	DQ Read 394 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 339 262% 357 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 111%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2004)-$47 218,164 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 342GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 97 97 99 97 100 99 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	Read 97.3 Write 92.8 Mixed 52 SusWrite 98.1 62% 85.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.7 139% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93.2% Outstanding	MC Read 39.3 MC Write 35.6 MC Mixed 33.2 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 13.7 SC Mixed 13 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 58.5 68% 58.5 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 76%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	654x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	363x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	232x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	85x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x
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	39x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	28x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $508

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16