Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	83.4% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	41 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 20 '17 at 18:33
Run Duration	229 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (40^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 Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 82.2 1-Core 72.3 2-Core 170 63% 108 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 741 67% 563 Pts	64-Core 936 58% 936 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6393) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 164 Parallax 191 100% 159 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 180 Splatting 129 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 206GB free Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	183% Outstanding	Read 1,483 Write 928 Mixed 1,093 259% 1,168 MB/s	4K Read 39.2 4K Write 83.3 4K Mixed 38 152% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 682 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 169 202% 366 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 183% Great: 243%
Plextor PX-256M5S 256GB 2,817 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^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 1155 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 404 (B1) Unknown 100 100 44361 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 185 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 169515 (F2) Unknown 100 100 253747	83.4% Excellent	Read 476 Write 374 Mixed 392 92% 414 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 50.2 4K Mixed 29.1 107% 36 MB/s	DQ Read 252 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 72.1 86% 153 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 38263368 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3505 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2686588 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10887 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (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 70 61 504823838 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 20267 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 64424509470 (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 3277060049301 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1362031984 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1695067492	94.8% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 155 Mixed 12.1 82% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.23 87% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 114%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 171 4183 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1798 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 10070 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 178 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 54 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 22609 (C2) HDA temperature 119 110 28 (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	70.8% Very good	Read 121 Write 126 Mixed 97 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.56 4K Mixed 0.3 119% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 84%
WD My Passport 25E2 4TB 31,793 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 3.5TB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	13.6% Very poor	Read 32.5 Write 27.3 Mixed 10.4 27% 23.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.25 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.29 44% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 13.6% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 6x8GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 6 of 8 slots used 48GB DIMM 2400 MHz clocked @ 2448 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	MC Read 40.3 MC Write 33.3 MC Mixed 36.4 105% 36.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 16.2 SC Mixed 15.8 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 76.5 52% 76.5 ns
Poor: 89% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 107%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,228x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	170x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $763

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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