Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 113% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	134% 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	86.2% 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 P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 03 '17 at 23:26
Run Duration	233 Seconds
Run User	HRV-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 89.5 1-Core 112 2-Core 225 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 715 72% 582 Pts	64-Core 841 52% 841 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2780 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 209 Parallax 184 154% 194 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 186 Splatting 128 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 325GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4066 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 322 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 65 59 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17515915020	86.2% Excellent	Read 513 Write 403 Mixed 424 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 69.8 4K Mixed 23.9 125% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 37.8 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 67.6 60% 86.4 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 134%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 175 7975 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 369 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3556 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 256 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5532 (C2) HDA temperature 112 106 40 (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	64% Good	Read 110 Write 113 Mixed 105 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.21 91% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 101%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 805GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 167 4266 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3162 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18940 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1972 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 20536 (C2) HDA temperature 113 105 34 (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	59.5% Above average	Read 105 Write 103 Mixed 79.3 71% 95.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.2 80% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 84%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 570GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2393 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 67 1 10056 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5051 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 30770 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 200 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2867 (B5) Unknown 100 100 2603612 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 723 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 197569085474 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 7 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 1 1 48035 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 200 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5266	56.2% Above average	Read 80.1 Write 115 Mixed 99.4 74% 98.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.36 103% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 72%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 23GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 8 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8783 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2367 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23085 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2323 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 96 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2270 (C2) HDA temperature 108 101 44 (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 2	48.5% Average	Read 86.7 Write 81.7 Mixed 82.6 63% 83.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.35 108% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 85%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 7GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 4 (03) Spinup time 76 76 8030 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 6619 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 11244 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 47209 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3549 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 3 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 95 95 5 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 48 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 47 537919520 (C2) HDA temperature 63 47 621805605 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 84932 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 44445 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	41.3% Average	Read 76.8 Write 66.8 Mixed 59.5 51% 67.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.45 101% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,062 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.1% Average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 16.1 MC Mixed 15.3 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 12.3 39% 13.7 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 63%

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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 $80Bench 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: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16