Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.6% 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	38% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 22:56
Run Duration	101 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (58^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-$88 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 116 2-Core 231 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 676 71% 571 Pts	64-Core 871 54% 871 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Vega Frontier Edition-$1,000 1,949 User benchmarks, average bench 86% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1600 MHz, MLim: 1105 MHz, Ram: 16GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 84.8 Parallax 148 88% 114 fps	MRender 86.1 Gravity 123 Splatting 124 92% 111 fps
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 92%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Adata Ultimate SU800 256GB-$54 40,725 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0801A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^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 100 100 670 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 892 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 57 (A3) Unknown 100 100 11 (A4) Unknown 100 100 32959 (A5) Unknown 100 100 132 (A6) Unknown 100 100 28 (A7) Unknown 100 100 65 (94) Unknown 100 100 54760 (95) Unknown 100 100 1785 (96) Unknown 100 100 1653 (97) Unknown 100 100 1766 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 95 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 359 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 55 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 6 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 205311 (F2) Unknown 100 100 140230 (F5) Unknown 100 100 527344	38% Below average	Read 516 Write 88.5 Mixed 143 54% 249 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 2.94 4K Mixed 3.12 44% 10.4 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 387GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 121921870 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1130 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5820951 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5083 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 830 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 39 271256453160 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1285 (C2) HDA temperature 40 12 51539607592 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 1 121921870 (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 -67375151968488 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2783100430 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1515738899	72.6% Very good	Read 127 Write 126 Mixed 114 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.29 92% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D18ADS3.16F 4x4GB 18 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	MC Read 44.8 MC Write 43.7 MC Mixed 41.6 124% 43.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 15.3 SC Mixed 14 46% 16.1 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 113%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	652x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	362x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	231x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $511

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16