Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (28th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 72 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 65.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	21.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	79.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (66%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	8.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 26 '17 at 21:57
Run Duration	625 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	66%

PC Performing below expectations (28^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 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	65.7% Good	Memory 86.2 1-Core 99.2 2-Core 159 69% 115 Pts	4-Core 247 8-Core 342 37% 295 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 8422) 2GB CLim: 1241 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	21.4% Poor	Lighting 25.1 Reflection 23 Parallax 31.3 20% 26.5 fps	MRender 33.3 Gravity 29 Splatting 24.2 23% 28.8 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.4% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3896 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 731 (B1) Unknown 97 97 43 (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 63 53 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 42 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20636607513	79.6% Very good	Read 505 Write 157 Mixed 259 67% 307 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 67.9 4K Mixed 35 140% 47.4 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 52.3 68% 124 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 124%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 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 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 170 166 6483 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5578 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21719 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1416 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 145 145 166682 (C2) HDA temperature 118 103 32 (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
Poor: 31% Great: 67%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 144 140 9791 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8389 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28005 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1558 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 238 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 174 174 80184 (C2) HDA temperature 121 103 31 (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	41.2% Average	Read 96.5 Write 47.3 Mixed 44.7 47% 62.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.002 4K Write 0.3 4K Mixed 0.26 34% 0.19 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 41.2% Great: 67%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 380GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 129 123 6533 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11413 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 37029 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1741 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 350 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 312489 (C2) HDA temperature 117 86 30 (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
Poor: 29% Great: 59%
WD My Book 1140 2TB 10,094 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 729GB free, PID 1140 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 14% Great: 49%
iODD External HDD 1TB 182 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 279GB free, PID 2028 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 15% Great: 174%
SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 128GB-$37 664 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 90GB free, PID 5588 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	23% Poor	Read 61.8 Write 42.4 Mixed 52.2 64% 52.1 MB/s	4K Read 1.47 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.73 80% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 23% Great: 123%
Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 64GB-$12 26,708 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 10GB free, PID 1666 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	6.73% Terrible	Read 31 Write 5.82 Mixed 7.49 14% 14.8 MB/s	4K Read 4.02 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.08 18% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.73% Great: 30%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	45.7% Average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 15.9 MC Mixed 14.5 45% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 13.6 SC Mixed 11 34% 12 GB/s	Latency 71.1 56% 71.1 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 79%

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

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	650x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	229x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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