Asrock X79 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	46.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock X79 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140213
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 16 '16 at 08:58
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2670-$53 4,803 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	Memory 87.5 1-Core 90.8 2-Core 173 69% 117 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 576 55% 456 Pts	64-Core 844 52% 844 Pts
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5390 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	63.5% Good	Lighting 80.1 Reflection 86.1 Parallax 81.3 65% 82.5 fps	MRender 79.9 Gravity 74 Splatting 68.3 60% 74.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba HG5d Q Series 256GB-$225 3,223 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: HTRAN101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	46.2% Average	Read 266 Write 209 Mixed 216 51% 230 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 42 4K Mixed 15.8 71% 25.5 MB/s	DQ Read 21 DQ Write 48.3 DQ Mixed 16.8 18% 28.7 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 106%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 18GB free Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1418 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 128 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 22 (A9) Unknown 100 100 504 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 92 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 56 240519807008 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 30 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2356 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2108 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2119 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	63.2% Good	Read 268 Write 257 Mixed 262 59% 262 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 48.8 4K Mixed 23.9 92% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 63.9 84% 151 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 114%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1.5TB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	79.6% Very good	Read 139 Write 138 Mixed 107 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.46 126% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 82%
Seagate ST32000644NS 2TB 7,161 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 518GB free Firmware: GG18 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 64 46529856 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 78 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 52 52 51541784263 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2431 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 108 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 54 639959077 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 77 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 195 (C2) HDA temperature 37 46 98784247845 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 23 46529856 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	62.2% Good	Read 114 Write 103 Mixed 23.1 58% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.34 88% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 3x4GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	71.2% Very good	MC Read 29.9 MC Write 25.8 MC Mixed 25.3 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 12 SC Mixed 12 37% 12.8 GB/s	Latency 70 57% 70 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 71%

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Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asrock X79 Extreme4 - $290

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	87x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	51x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	31x

GPU
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	25x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	23x
GTX 660Nvidia $170Bench 20%, 123,956 samples	18x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x
NVMe MZVPV256HDGL-00000 256GBSamsungBench 201%, 5,877 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 4x4GBCorsairBench 52%, 780 samples	10x
BLS8G3D1609DS 2x8GBCrucialBench 43%, 2,652 samples	9x
Vengeance DDR3 2x8GBCorsairBench 44%, 2,237 samples	7x

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Value: 28% - Poor

Total price: $818

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16