Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% 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	55.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	26.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130418
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 27 '17 at 01:26
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3960X 4,885 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	Memory 87.4 1-Core 94.7 2-Core 189 72% 124 Pts	4-Core 358 8-Core 546 56% 452 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 145 Parallax 129 109% 136 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 132 Splatting 110 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 335 Series 240GB-$219 4,220 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 155GB free Firmware: 335t Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -130764574284022 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3272 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1205 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 368393 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 368393 (F2) Unknown 100 100 324522 (F9) Unknown 100 100 10291	78.5% Very good	Read 514 Write 302 Mixed 351 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 56.2 4K Mixed 19.8 96% 34.4 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 12.9 73% 167 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 92%
Intel 330 Series 180GB 5,848 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -115680648246901 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3124 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3114 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 368411 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 368411 (F2) Unknown 100 100 191644 (F9) Unknown 100 100 10373	55.7% Above average	Read 471 Write 141 Mixed 228 61% 280 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 60.8 4K Mixed 13.1 81% 31.8 MB/s	DQ Read 21.5 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 9.39 35% 71.2 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 83%
Hitachi HDS724040ALE640 4TB-$465 6,270 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2TB free Firmware: MJAOA3B0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 81 (03) Spinup time 126 126 51579650658 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6948 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 117 117 36 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 9701 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3270 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6994 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6994 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 193274052635 (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 200 200 0	75.6% Very good	Read 139 Write 125 Mixed 133 100% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.18 80% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 91%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	78% Very good	MC Read 31.4 MC Write 30.6 MC Mixed 28.1 86% 30 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 12.7 SC Mixed 11.6 37% 12.9 GB/s	Latency 70.1 57% 70.1 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 98%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	435x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	297x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	101x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $812

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16