Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 70.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	80.1% 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	79.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	27.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160408
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 24 '17 at 13:25
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing below expectations (27^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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	70.5% Very good	Memory 80.8 1-Core 80.5 2-Core 157 63% 106 Pts	4-Core 324 8-Core 642 57% 483 Pts	64-Core 918 57% 918 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.1% Excellent	Lighting 98.5 Reflection 110 Parallax 105 80% 104 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 94.8 Splatting 99.1 80% 97.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 480GB-$84 9,168 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 306GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6524 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 40 (AE) Unknown 100 100 30 (B4) Unknown 0 0 8219 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 54 197568495644 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 8700966400 (F7) Unknown 100 100 280811058 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1034259249	79.9% Very good	Read 488 Write 406 Mixed 438 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 17.9 112% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 25.2 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 16 26% 47.3 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 100%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: CC51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 144633384 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 80 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6745394 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 28908 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 69 (B7) Unknown 97 97 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 84 84 16 (BE) vendor-specific 75 58 420741145 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 85969 (C2) HDA temperature 25 42 77309411353 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 12 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 11102490484203 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12280796704 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7539362925	57.9% Above average	Read 116 Write 85.9 Mixed 88.2 73% 96.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.17 48% 0.36 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 96%
WDC WD50 00AAJS-00TKA0 1TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 253GB free, PID 2336 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	19.3% Very poor	Read 36.4 Write 35.9 Mixed 36.1 47% 36.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.55 88% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 19.3% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x16GB 46,387 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	67.3% Good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 24.5 MC Mixed 22.6 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 15.3 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 79 51% 79 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 164%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,230x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $748

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