Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	8.88% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	109% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 23 '15 at 01:33
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.4% Excellent	Memory 89.1 1-Core 120 2-Core 241 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 580 60% 483 Pts	64-Core 582 36% 582 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Gigabyte(1458 3555) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5891 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	8.88% Terrible	Lighting 10.1 Reflection 9.23 Parallax 11.2 8% 10.2 fps	MRender 14 Gravity 9.63 Splatting 13.3 10% 12.3 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 8.88% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2003 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 154 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 64 52 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 151 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5387047495	109% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 413 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 84 4K Mixed 45.9 167% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 109 125% 217 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 124%
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 37GB free Firmware: 0171 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	183% Outstanding	Read 1,774 Write 815 Mixed 1,189 277% 1,259 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 41.6 164% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 133 138% 227 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 183% Great: 230%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 509GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 73906376 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9398 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 79285607 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16619 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1166 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BC) Unknown 100 48 35159138902013 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 51 588972065 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1130 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 48 48 105310 (C2) HDA temperature 33 49 51539607585 (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 124927713743073 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27630302774933 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -73532834413163	91.4% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 149 Mixed 123 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.35 100% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,207 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	MC Read 29.4 MC Write 32 MC Mixed 28 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 13.6 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 68.3 59% 68.3 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 82%

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

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	542x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	35x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	19x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $896

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 $184	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