Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 80%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	83% 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	103% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 28 '17 at 18:02
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80% Very good	Memory 88.8 1-Core 101 2-Core 205 76% 132 Pts	4-Core 391 8-Core 519 58% 455 Pts	64-Core 519 32% 519 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 81%

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: 381.65 Performing below potential (80^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 111 Parallax 101 86% 106 fps	MRender 94.5 Gravity 97.2 Splatting 88.8 76% 93.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB-$139 17,545 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 238GB free Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 7939 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 492 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 20 (A8) Unknown 100 100 90 (A9) Unknown 100 100 274 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 17 (AE) Unknown 100 100 121 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 36 154619609116 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 56 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4521 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2086 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2673 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	87% Excellent	Read 420 Write 413 Mixed 395 92% 409 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 80.9 4K Mixed 24.5 116% 44.4 MB/s	DQ Read 264 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 49.4 86% 170 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 99%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4766 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 253 (B1) Unknown 99 99 26 (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 69 64 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 28 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4862167536	103% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 458 Mixed 493 110% 492 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 85.7 4K Mixed 38.9 142% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 108 111% 183 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 124%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 88GB free Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5191 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 340 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 8 (AE) Unknown 99 99 50 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 997 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 46 32 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 2048 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1134 (F2) Unknown 99 99 978	222% Outstanding	Read 1,950 Write 1,229 Mixed 1,477 344% 1,552 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 48.6 184% 68.1 MB/s	DQ Read 303 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 126 135% 225 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 222% Great: 220%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 393GB free Firmware: CC3D Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 111230521 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5436 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 63 55964459 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 29844 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 446 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 51540459546 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 48 387252247 (C2) HDA temperature 23 52 51539607575 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 19 111230521 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 52746493373920 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3455433374 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1302725719	59.1% Above average	Read 91.7 Write 114 Mixed 105 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.53 117% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 70%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 230GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 171 2291 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1313 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10340 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 401 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 162 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1150 (C2) HDA temperature 119 112 24 (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	67.8% Good	Read 123 Write 113 Mixed 102 84% 113 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 2.69 4K Mixed 0.33 130% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 1,409 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 31.4 MC Mixed 28.3 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 12.5 SC Mixed 10.8 34% 11.8 GB/s	Latency 68.7 58% 68.7 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 104%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	542x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	35x

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	19x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $881

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