Asus X99-A/USB 3.1

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	26.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 14 '17 at 01:55
Run Duration	249 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$150 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Memory 90.8 1-Core 126 2-Core 260 88% 159 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 717 77% 610 Pts	64-Core 1,006 62% 1,006 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 91%

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: 1583 MHz, MLim: 1812 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 119 Parallax 108 90% 113 fps	MRender 98.4 Gravity 102 Splatting 94.9 80% 98.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 201GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q 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 4854 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 947 (B1) Unknown 98 98 33 (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 63 42 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 58 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26446753380
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 656GB free Firmware: 1A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 154 146 11291 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 994 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 901 (10) Unknown 3 197 55495962503 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 946 (C2) HDA temperature 123 106 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	81.7% Excellent	Read 165 Write 120 Mixed 146 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.96 4K Mixed 0.33 118% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 112%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$90 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 429GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 70220048 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2521 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 4358716956 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8649 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1507 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65542 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 504758302 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 898 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 40785 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 42949672990 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 25868588029893 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39931139522 (F2) Unknown 100 253 61876470385	83.5% Excellent	Read 151 Write 139 Mixed 128 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 5.5 4K Mixed 0.79 221% 2.35 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 108%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB-$60 30,974 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 398GB free Firmware: 1118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 72 72 9270 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 6996 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10483 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 21126 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4169 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 84 62 269484048 (C2) HDA temperature 77 59 386924567 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2704 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	44.8% Average	Read 67.5 Write 88.1 Mixed 69 56% 74.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.55 130% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 60%
WD WD5000KS-00MNB0 500GB 1,097 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 131GB free Firmware: 2E07 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 222 211 5891 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15184 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 36022 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5760 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 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	29.4% Poor	Read 52.3 Write 49.9 Mixed 49.2 38% 50.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.37 99% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB-$182 7,414 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 39.7 MC Write 43 MC Mixed 39.4 116% 40.7 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 23.5 SC Mixed 21 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 66 61% 66 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 101%

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Gaming 65%

Destroyer

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	765x
Core i7-5930KIntel $150Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	197x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	118x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	116x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	87x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	40x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	43x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	27x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GBCorsair $140Bench 87%, 4,858 samples	26x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $352

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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16