Asus X99-A II

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 112% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 96.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	127% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	103% 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	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 (33%). 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 II (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 06 '17 at 22:50
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6850K-$115 29,279 User benchmarks, average bench 84% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 133 2-Core 262 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 838 83% 679 Pts	64-Core 1,003 62% 1,003 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 176 Reflection 204 Parallax 178 144% 186 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 171 Splatting 124 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB-$199 9,250 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 354GB free (System drive) Firmware: 00RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 15757 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1802 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 70 (A8) Unknown 100 100 328 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1508 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 198 (AE) Unknown 100 100 566 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 45 193274511396 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1596 (E8) Unknown 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 103303 (F1) Unknown 253 253 64367 (F2) Unknown 253 253 46680 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	103% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 463 Mixed 467 107% 480 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 26.7 142% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 19.5 88% 197 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 114%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 175 164 6241 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8605 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 37261 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3201 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 773 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 38 38 486747 (C2) HDA temperature 122 89 28 (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	77.6% Very good	Read 159 Write 112 Mixed 112 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.18 74% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 76275224 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3322 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 32729978 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5035 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 694 (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 68 51 538968096 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 155 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21908 (C2) HDA temperature 32 49 42949672992 (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 -5463198398366 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42089165493 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3527539242633	44.8% Average	Read 78.8 Write 77.4 Mixed 74.1 58% 76.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.09 4K Mixed 0.23 67% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3160815AS 160GB-$46 33,785 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 68GB free Firmware: B Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10435 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 799418869 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34578 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4039 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 40 9229893670 (C2) HDA temperature 38 60 64424509478 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 92 64 103004603 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 118 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	32.2% Below average	Read 53.9 Write 57.9 Mixed 55.3 42% 55.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.35 87% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 42%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 24GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 35254843 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 76 76 25335 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 37 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18651330 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 44084 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4502 (B7) Unknown 75 75 25 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 4295032870 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 44 4749721627 (C2) HDA temperature 27 56 47244640283 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 17 11 35254843 (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 -11690900930138 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2398540975 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4147664799	40.5% Average	Read 71.5 Write 69.2 Mixed 66.5 52% 69.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.59 125% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 70%
TOSHIBA USB DISK 3.0 32GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 4GB free, PID 1400 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	16% Very poor	Read 42.9 Write 28.2 Mixed 18.9 35% 30 MB/s	4K Read 5.55 4K Write 0.75 4K Mixed 0.39 59% 2.23 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 16% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 89,024 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	MC Read 48.8 MC Write 65.2 MC Mixed 52.4 158% 55.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 23.7 59% 20.7 GB/s	Latency 53.5 75% 53.5 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 119%

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Workstation 77%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A II - $294

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	693x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	193x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	188x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	213x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	180x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	63x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	40x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	29x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	23x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	19x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $906

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