Gigabyte GA-X79S-UP5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 77.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	90.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79S-UP5 (all builds)
Memory	27.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130927
Uptime	18 Days
Run Date	Oct 02 '17 at 06:04
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	ARE-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3970X-$217 2,677 User benchmarks, average bench 78% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	Memory 81.6 1-Core 105 2-Core 210 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 626 63% 512 Pts	64-Core 750 46% 750 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro P5000 8,562 User benchmarks, average bench 89% Nvidia(10DE 11B2) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1733 MHz, MLim: 2256 MHz, Ram: 15GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing below potential (54^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 113 Reflection 115 Parallax 89.4 92% 106 fps	MRender 91.3 Gravity 127 Splatting 101 87% 107 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 283GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2001 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 284 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 68 62 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 26 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5236510526
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 446GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 87894976 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1762 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 198737954 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10209 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1230 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 504823838 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 81604378654 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 25 87894976 (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 -55314883794861 (F1) Unknown 100 253 400811711 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2375488199	70.1% Very good	Read 119 Write 126 Mixed 107 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.72 127% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 314GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 228840334 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2299 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9596473 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9788 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1225 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 196611 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 504889374 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 81604378654 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 21 228840334 (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 -30730490988859 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1269994989 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3799571131	53.3% Above average	Read 95.4 Write 90.4 Mixed 93.7 70% 93.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.35 98% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4x8GB 82 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47.7% Average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 15.9 MC Mixed 15.6 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 12.1 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 77.6 52% 77.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 94%

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Gaming 24%

Surfboard

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79S-UP5

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	44x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	30x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	11x

GPU
GTX 670Nvidia $435Bench 28%, 47,610 samples	8x
GTX 680Nvidia $360Bench 32%, 38,995 samples	8x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	8x

SSD
840 250GBSamsung $251Bench 70%, 41,998 samples	9x
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 738 samples	4x
Vengeance DDR3 4x4GBCorsairBench 52%, 780 samples	3x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 44%, 677 samples	3x

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Value: 11% - Very poor

Total price: $686

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