Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


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 80%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	108% 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	55.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130829
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 07:50
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	5%

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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 i7-4930K-$90 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	80% Very good	Memory 92.7 1-Core 93.8 2-Core 209 76% 132 Pts	4-Core 362 8-Core 616 59% 489 Pts	64-Core 799 49% 799 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 88%

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: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 151 Parallax 131 117% 142 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 137 Splatting 109 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force GS 240GB-$261 4,179 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.05A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 13393140 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 -35536559387584 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1545 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 928 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 50 55837851676 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13393140 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13393140 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13393140 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 33983 (EA) Unknown 0 0 17263 (F1) Unknown 0 0 17263 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10712	55.1% Above average	Read 367 Write 163 Mixed 197 53% 243 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 31.6 4K Mixed 14.3 76% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 65.9 79% 142 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 93%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 13,609 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 538GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Read 333 Write 129 Mixed 130 146% 197 MB/s	4K Read 4.3 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.37 250% 2.09 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 213%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 487GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239097356 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6768 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 176021558 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 38566 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3576 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 21475165451 (BD) vendor-specific 76 76 24 (BE) vendor-specific 74 46 437846042 (C2) HDA temperature 26 54 47244640282 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 24 239097356 (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 98376225945354 (F1) Unknown 100 253 455675788 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1662360007	43.7% Average	Read 77 Write 75.1 Mixed 75 57% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.44 108% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	98.9% Outstanding	MC Read 40.3 MC Write 38.8 MC Mixed 37.5 111% 38.9 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 12.6 SC Mixed 13 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 62.6 64% 62.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 77%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 61%

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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 $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