Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	36.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 08 '17 at 03:00
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 102 2-Core 212 79% 136 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 532 57% 452 Pts	64-Core 534 33% 534 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60% Good	Lighting 74.9 Reflection 77.1 Parallax 75.4 61% 75.8 fps	MRender 72 Gravity 70.1 Splatting 70.7 58% 70.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Fm-25s3- 240GBP3 240GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: GS50 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 118 183008920 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 115517440413481 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2046 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 502 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 183008920 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 183008920 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 183008920 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27881 (EA) Unknown 0 0 24278 (F1) Unknown 0 0 24278 (F2) Unknown 0 0 22395	36.5% Below average	Read 152 Write 123 Mixed 109 28% 128 MB/s	4K Read 11 4K Write 42.3 4K Mixed 12.8 55% 22 MB/s	DQ Read 180 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 28.7 51% 103 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 54%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 163 6566 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1835 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18030 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1340 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 974 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 860 (C2) HDA temperature 115 96 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	68.7% Good	Read 111 Write 127 Mixed 119 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 3.11 4K Mixed 0.63 158% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 3,641 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 26.8 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 14.5 SC Mixed 13.3 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 57.6 69% 57.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 87%

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

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	543x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	386x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	98x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	36x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	20x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $877

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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) $37	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