Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 78.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	73.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131224
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	May 22 '17 at 10:14
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	78.1% Very good	Memory 89.9 1-Core 101 2-Core 201 76% 131 Pts	4-Core 359 8-Core 511 55% 435 Pts	64-Core 512 32% 512 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.4.4 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Lighting 76.4 Reflection 65 Parallax 91.9 62% 77.8 fps	MRender 64.1 Gravity 63.5 Splatting 81.3 58% 69.6 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS2211 240GB-$90 1,866 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS221016 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3210 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 951 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 747 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4194436 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 114 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9603	73.9% Very good	Read 520 Write 356 Mixed 410 95% 429 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 51.6 4K Mixed 13.8 78% 29.1 MB/s	DQ Read 225 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 62 82% 149 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 108%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 10GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3204 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 989 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 47 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 111 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3586118639	78.2% Very good	Read 502 Write 346 Mixed 352 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 51.9 4K Mixed 19.5 97% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 137 DQ Mixed 73.9 85% 149 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 118%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 242GB free Firmware: FP2A 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 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7037 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1884 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 280 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 5062 (0A) Spinup retry count 137 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1367 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 214 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 506 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2511 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 219044053029 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 17 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 104 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 89 89 4695 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 205 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 55% Great: 104%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 7,771 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	MC Read 32.4 MC Write 34.5 MC Mixed 30.9 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 14.6 SC Mixed 12.7 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 79%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	434x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	60x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $812

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	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