Asus PRIME X299-A

Performance Results


Gaming 113% UFO	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 127% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	124% 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	218% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME X299-A (all builds)
Memory	20 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170613
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Dec 23 '17 at 22:39
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7900X-$393 19,432 User benchmarks, average bench 82% CPU0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 77.2 1-Core 137 2-Core 276 88% 163 Pts	4-Core 554 8-Core 1,113 98% 834 Pts	64-Core 1,931 120% 1,931 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	124% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 138 Parallax 130 151% 151 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 126 Splatting 101 90% 111 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 751GB free Firmware: EXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15736 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1931 (B1) Unknown 67 67 395 (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 80 50 20 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 212 (F1) Unknown 99 99 182887672949	83.2% Excellent	Read 496 Write 344 Mixed 357 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 61.8 4K Mixed 23.8 109% 38.7 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 98.9 106% 177 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 126%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 751GB free Firmware: EXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15734 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1931 (B1) Unknown 67 67 394 (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 81 50 19 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 212 (F1) Unknown 99 99 185362893738	83.3% Excellent	Read 495 Write 345 Mixed 351 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 68.4 4K Mixed 21.5 111% 40.3 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 100 106% 178 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 126%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	218% Outstanding	Read 1,846 Write 1,125 Mixed 1,179 306% 1,384 MB/s	4K Read 46.5 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 30.1 173% 65.6 MB/s	DQ Read 638 DQ Write 473 DQ Mixed 195 244% 435 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 218% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 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 73 64 22380904 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 9 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1449712 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 103517301768223 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (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 77 77 387252247 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 20 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 77309411351 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 73 64 22380904 (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 -103444287324132 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4135354187 (F2) Unknown 100 253 47826634
Poor: 40% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3x8GB 7,706 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 3 of 8 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 35.7 MC Mixed 21.7 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 9 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 10.9 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 85.8 47% 85.8 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 73%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 93%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME X299-A

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	374x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	217x
Core i9-7900XIntel $393Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	149x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	192x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	93x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	57x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	49x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x

RAM
BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 4x4GBCrucialBench 82%, 497 samples	53x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	32x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	25x

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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $744

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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16