Asus SABERTOOTH X99

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.6% 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	86.9% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X99 (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160408
Uptime	12.5 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '17 at 00:45
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 92.6 1-Core 112 2-Core 239 83% 148 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 702 73% 585 Pts	64-Core 936 58% 936 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.6% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 108 Parallax 108 85% 107 fps	MRender 89.9 Gravity 96 Splatting 82.7 73% 89.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force GT 240GB-$499 4,125 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 58GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 10284122 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 -80444737422546 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 801 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 271 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 64427458590 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10284122 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10284122 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10284122 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 34538 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10057 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10057 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9810	71.6% Very good	Read 492 Write 264 Mixed 339 81% 365 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 90.8 4K Mixed 11.7 105% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 51.2 65% 108 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 92%
Intel 730 Series 480GB-$230 5,159 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: L2010420 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 97 97 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6487 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 793 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 78 (AF) Unknown 100 100 4318102134 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 74 436797466 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 78 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 26 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 303984 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 54 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 353 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 303984 (F2) Unknown 100 100 457495	86.9% Excellent	Read 495 Write 420 Mixed 433 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 21.5 120% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 19.9 52% 103 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 110%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 170 6225 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6005 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6436 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 784 (10) Unknown 4 196 79337838611 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5935 (C2) HDA temperature 121 112 29 (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
Poor: 60% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	MC Read 31.1 MC Write 22 MC Mixed 24.4 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 22.2 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 62.9 64% 62.9 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 97%

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Gaming 82%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 72%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	353x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	157x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	127x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	107x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	86x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	73x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	39x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	34x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	33x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	30x
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2800 C16 8x8GBG.SKILLBench 120%, 113 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	21x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $620

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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