Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	77.3% 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	88.4% 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	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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 23 '17 at 15:58
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 123 2-Core 238 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 477 8-Core 702 74% 590 Pts	64-Core 930 58% 930 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Nvidia(10DE 1132) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.3% Very good	Lighting 98.9 Reflection 109 Parallax 97.7 81% 102 fps	MRender 86.2 Gravity 92.1 Splatting 83.3 71% 87.2 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 709GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12683 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1633 (B1) Unknown 98 98 17 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 74 35 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 24 (EB) Unknown 99 99 312 (F1) Unknown 99 99 44272841847	88.4% Excellent	Read 511 Write 352 Mixed 356 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 75.8 4K Mixed 24.4 138% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 45.3 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 92.4 83% 120 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 126%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 116GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16971430 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -82815559396191 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 618 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 46 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 23 36 55836934167 (C2) HDA temperature 23 36 55836934167 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16971430 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16971430 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16971430 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98784247808 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22260 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19082 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19082 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9086 (F4) Unknown 99 99 4259880	58% Above average	Read 437 Write 251 Mixed 284 72% 324 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 21.6 4K Mixed 15.9 76% 22.2 MB/s	DQ Read 33.4 DQ Write 85.3 DQ Mixed 10 22% 42.9 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 65%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 930GB free Firmware: SM14 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 81856616 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 967 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 21555668933 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5903 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 769 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 42 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 48 353697813 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 315 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14257 (C2) HDA temperature 21 52 60129542165 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 90 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 19% Great: 65%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 793GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 166 166 17191862546 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1338 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5287 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 617 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1529 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1529 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 154619805719 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	96.9% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 163 Mixed 155 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.13 67% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C14 4x4GB 11,542 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	96.4% Outstanding	MC Read 36.6 MC Write 39.6 MC Mixed 34.1 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 20.7 54% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 99%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,231x
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	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	85x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 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: 67% - Good

Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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