Asus X99-A II

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.9% 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	233% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A II (all builds)
Memory	28.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161108
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '17 at 01:15
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	46%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 118 2-Core 232 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 739 72% 593 Pts	64-Core 904 56% 904 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 114 Parallax 100 92% 109 fps	MRender 97.4 Gravity 102 Splatting 102 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 867GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	233% Outstanding	Read 2,414 Write 1,421 Mixed 1,453 389% 1,762 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 27.5 157% 59 MB/s	DQ Read 47.8 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 26.8 35% 60.5 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 233% Great: 302%
SiImage 240GB 163 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 152GB free Firmware: 0000 Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	55.7% Above average	Read 607 Write 149 Mixed 196 68% 317 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 60.8 4K Mixed 8.17 71% 29.3 MB/s	DQ Read 21.4 DQ Write 71.8 DQ Mixed 8.46 18% 33.9 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 84%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$174 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 194GB free Firmware: CC13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 12981935 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3128 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 12 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 199524370 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 49086 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 412 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 60 41 1430897360936 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 303 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3152 (C2) HDA temperature 40 59 73014444072 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 12 12981935 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -47858820534848 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1761077551 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3829632734	46.6% Average	Read 96.2 Write 66.3 Mixed 71.9 59% 78.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.35 78% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 46.6% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 2800 C16 Series 4x8GB 104 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	113% Outstanding	MC Read 41.4 MC Write 50.8 MC Mixed 40.9 127% 44.4 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 20.5 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 118%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 77%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A II - $294

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	691x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	193x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	187x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	213x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	180x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	106x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	63x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	40x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	29x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	23x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	19x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $906

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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