Intel X79

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	98.8% 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	33.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Intel X79 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170628
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 20 '17 at 19:36
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4960X-$1,189 5,121 User benchmarks, average bench 78% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 86.4 1-Core 114 2-Core 226 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 447 8-Core 712 71% 580 Pts	64-Core 858 53% 858 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1684 MHz, MLim: 1820 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.8% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 128 Parallax 127 106% 128 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 114 Splatting 92.7 84% 104 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 112 49768032 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 -133908490307485 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 487 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 49768032 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 49768032 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 49768032 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 42753 (EA) Unknown 0 0 29050 (F1) Unknown 0 0 29050 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15362	33.9% Below average	Read 185 Write 101 Mixed 118 30% 135 MB/s	4K Read 15.3 4K Write 33.7 4K Mixed 9.23 53% 19.4 MB/s	DQ Read 116 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 24.8 42% 80.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 61%
WD WD1001FAES-60Z2A0 1TB 11,642 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 817GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 175 4100 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1961 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 25 25 55063 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1481 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 218 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1742 (C2) HDA temperature 114 89 33 (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 3 (F0) Head flying hours 31 31 50486 (F1) Unknown 200 200 26410911846 (F2) Unknown 200 200 34519178000	55.7% Above average	Read 109 Write 85.7 Mixed 92 72% 95.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.26 74% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 302GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 66211496 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 741 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 100559941 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 31179 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 249 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 72 47 13406699548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 154 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 15 15 170351 (C2) HDA temperature 28 53 -140737488355300 (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 -19413252147280 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17185820211 (F2) Unknown 100 253 25314317906	96% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 156 Mixed 152 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.31 90% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 112%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 145GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 179 5875 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1155 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 28 28 52572 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 481 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 200 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 2200130 (C2) HDA temperature 119 100 31 (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	24.4% Poor	Read 46.4 Write 38.4 Mixed 51.9 35% 45.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.2 63% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 24.4% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Mushkin 998995 4x4GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	98.8% Outstanding	MC Read 40.8 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 37.2 111% 38.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 12.5 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 70.9 56% 70.9 ns
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 100%

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Gaming 35%

Jet ski

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Intel X79

CPU
Xeon E5-2689 0IntelBench 71%, 6,987 samples	339x
Xeon E5-2650 v2IntelBench 67%, 5,123 samples	268x
Xeon E5-2640 0IntelBench 65%, 3,274 samples	143x

GPU
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	126x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	114x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	108x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	63x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	45x
256GB 256GBSSDBench 77%, 9,229 samples	35x

RAM
M393B5170GB0- 2x4GBSamsungBench 52%, 1,540 samples	127x
M393B1K70DH0- 2x8GBSamsungBench 54%, 1,683 samples	62x
HMT151R7BFR4C 4x4GBHynixBench 67%, 393 samples	58x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $158

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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) $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