Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 94.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	79.2% 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	98% 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Sep 03 '17 at 20:43
Run Duration	374 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 124 2-Core 249 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 496 8-Core 724 76% 610 Pts	64-Core 738 46% 738 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.2% Very good	Lighting 101 Reflection 109 Parallax 99.2 82% 103 fps	MRender 92.5 Gravity 93.5 Splatting 84.9 73% 90.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 465GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9295 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 248 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 44 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 146 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6122026947	116% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 415 Mixed 416 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.7 4K Write 90.3 4K Mixed 49.4 182% 62.2 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 129 150% 260 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 134%
Samsung MZVLW1T0HMLH-000L2 1TB 563 User benchmarks, average bench 219% 388GB free Firmware: 3L1Q Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	252% Outstanding	Read 2,098 Write 1,365 Mixed 1,434 361% 1,633 MB/s	4K Read 57.2 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 64.2 233% 81 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 129 142% 241 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 252% Great: 289%
Seagate 600 Pro 240GB-$199 351 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: B690 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 5040 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24927 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3528 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 41 0 549759680553 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 96 1422 (E7) Temperature 64 64 37 (EA) Unknown 100 100 493992 (F1) Unknown 100 100 23046 (F2) Unknown 100 100 16642 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 23212	98% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 433 Mixed 448 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 66.8 4K Mixed 33.1 117% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 84.6 132% 251 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 98%
Kingston DataTraveler SE9 USB 2.0 16GB-$5 1,670 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 10GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	5.95% Terrible	Read 24.8 Write 3.43 Mixed 5.71 10% 11.3 MB/s	4K Read 6.7 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.004 25% 2.24 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.95% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Vulcan-2400 4x4GB 268 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	MC Read 47.6 MC Write 50.8 MC Mixed 38.5 130% 45.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 15.3 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 89%

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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	434x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	100x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	61x

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 $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