Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 86.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	5120 x 2880 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140507
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 15 '17 at 11:04
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 119 2-Core 233 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 622 65% 520 Pts	64-Core 626 39% 626 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 152 Reflection 162 Parallax 138 124% 151 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 145 Splatting 116 104% 128 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21860 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4078 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 94 94 201 (AE) Unknown 100 100 730 (B5) Unknown 100 100 15376083650555 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 81 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 94 94 6 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	58.2% Above average	Read 481 Write 193 Mixed 278 70% 317 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 64.5 4K Mixed 6.79 77% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 7.76 39% 88.8 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 72%
Drevo X1-240G 240GB 516 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 29GB free Firmware: D1DB11 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 117 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 223 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 24 (A3) Unknown 100 100 365 (94) Unknown 100 100 41406 (95) Unknown 100 100 633 (96) Unknown 100 100 450 (97) Unknown 100 100 591 (A4) Unknown 100 100 13870 (A5) Unknown 100 100 32 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 37525685075993 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 61424 (F2) Unknown 100 100 70218 (F5) Unknown 100 100 81919 (F6) Unknown 100 100 82812 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	75.8% Very good	Read 265 Write 256 Mixed 262 58% 261 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 76.6 4K Mixed 42.4 132% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 85.6 89% 146 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 95%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 24GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 3367 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 766 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2242028503822 (A6) Unknown 100 100 10 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 29 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 20 (AE) Unknown 100 100 163 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 54 38 266287972398 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1116710371616 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2416 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3602 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2600 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2367 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	78% Very good	Read 500 Write 390 Mixed 417 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 95.5 4K Mixed 6.78 88% 40.4 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 6.91 65% 149 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 78%
WD Black 1.5TB (2010) 6,983 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 789GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8516 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8119 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20073 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3816 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 743 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7375 (C2) HDA temperature 112 104 40 (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	67.5% Good	Read 117 Write 118 Mixed 115 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.55 154% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT4G3D1608ET3LX0 2x4GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 8 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	63.5% Good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 20.8 64% 22.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 14.3 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 77%

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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	542x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	91x

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 $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $896

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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