Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.2% 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	53.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 09 '17 at 21:03
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 87 1-Core 110 2-Core 216 78% 138 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 681 65% 539 Pts	64-Core 847 52% 847 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1755 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	Lighting 118 Reflection 118 Parallax 119 96% 118 fps	MRender 95.3 Gravity 99.8 Splatting 87.2 76% 94.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$109 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 368GB free Firmware: M0C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 912 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 25 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 53 201864577050 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4911050739 (F7) Unknown 100 100 153484292 (F8) Unknown 100 100 22676064 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3575 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	74.1% Very good	Read 483 Write 342 Mixed 323 85% 382 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 58.8 4K Mixed 11.9 87% 32.5 MB/s	DQ Read 298 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 40.2 72% 148 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 104%
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 210GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1458 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 937 (A5) Unknown 100 100 10748025 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 64 (A8) Unknown 100 100 4 (A9) Unknown 100 100 989 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 48 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 66 283469021210 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 146029805602 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1960 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2506 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2325 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1273 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	67% Good	Read 466 Write 256 Mixed 203 68% 308 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 47.8 4K Mixed 13.1 91% 31.1 MB/s	DQ Read 221 DQ Write 73 DQ Mixed 29.5 52% 108 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 107%
SanDisk Extreme 480GB-$300 1,286 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 110 27421957 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 78391743089963 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1880 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 112 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 68722360345 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 27421957 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 27421957 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 27421957 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7595 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10179 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10179 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13546	53.2% Above average	Read 467 Write 214 Mixed 266 69% 316 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 15.9 4K Mixed 11.1 65% 18.3 MB/s	DQ Read 67.8 DQ Write 47.3 DQ Mixed 44.2 37% 53.1 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 66%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 141995624 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1324 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1286256 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1041 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 560 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 58 471007260 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1428 (C2) HDA temperature 28 42 77309411356 (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 68178310858390 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4671449649 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10824670480	74.8% Very good	Read 120 Write 140 Mixed 102 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 5.14 4K Mixed 0.74 207% 2.2 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 734 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 38.9 MC Write 42 MC Mixed 39.1 114% 40 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 21 53% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 132%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,235x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	144x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	172x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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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Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16