Asus X99-A/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


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 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 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	66.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	85.1% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '17 at 00:51
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	19%

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 i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 84.8 1-Core 109 2-Core 246 81% 147 Pts	4-Core 434 8-Core 760 72% 597 Pts	64-Core 918 57% 918 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	66.5% Good	Lighting 84.1 Reflection 89.9 Parallax 79.7 69% 84.6 fps	MRender 83.4 Gravity 77.4 Splatting 71 63% 77.3 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 66%
Nvidia GTX 760-$209 161,132 User benchmarks, average bench 26% EVGA(3842 2768) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	29.9% Poor	Lighting 35 Reflection 31.9 Parallax 39.8 29% 35.6 fps	MRender 43.1 Gravity 41.9 Splatting 35.7 32% 40.2 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 29.9% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ ARC 100 240GB-$120 11,799 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 126GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10193 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1341 (AB) Unknown 100 100 80935760 (AE) Unknown 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 240 (D2) Unknown 100 100 53 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 92 92 92 (F1) Unknown 100 100 11919 (F2) Unknown 100 100 17769 (F9) Unknown 100 100 593874525	85.1% Excellent	Read 451 Write 410 Mixed 421 95% 427 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 63.9 4K Mixed 25.4 100% 37.2 MB/s	DQ Read 255 DQ Write 263 DQ Mixed 68.5 104% 195 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 101%
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 118GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd 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 100 100 306 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1009 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 58 (A3) Unknown 100 100 33 (A4) Unknown 100 100 13840 (A5) Unknown 100 100 52 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 11 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3803 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 143041 (F2) Unknown 100 100 312597 (F5) Unknown 100 100 221440	93.5% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 411 Mixed 460 103% 461 MB/s	4K Read 24.3 4K Write 74.3 4K Mixed 34.6 121% 44.4 MB/s	DQ Read 239 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 73.6 100% 181 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 108%
Seagate ST3750330AS 750GB-$137 3,651 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 542GB free Firmware: SD04 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 42623715 (03) Spinup time 94 87 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14513 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 93 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 370022091147 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 31155 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 58 (0C) Power cycle count 94 37 6780 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 83 83 17 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17180196946 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 73 46 454557723 (C2) HDA temperature 27 54 38654705691 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 21 42623715 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5094	39.3% Below average	Read 72.8 Write 64 Mixed 62.4 50% 66.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.44 103% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 39.3% Great: 58%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$39 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 196GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 4108 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3409 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20969 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3347 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 215 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3193 (C2) HDA temperature 118 102 29 (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	54.7% Above average	Read 107 Write 83.6 Mixed 101 74% 97.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.3 85% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70% Good	MC Read 29.9 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 24 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 22.4 SC Mixed 20.1 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 104%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	760x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	194x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	91x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	118x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	113x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	39x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	43x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	27x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GBCorsair $140Bench 87%, 4,858 samples	26x

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Value: 91% - Outstanding

Total price: $371

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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