Asus TUF X299 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 118% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (26th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 74 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 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 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	119% 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	185% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus TUF X299 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	9.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171114
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '18 at 21:12
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7940X-$815 4,560 User benchmarks, average bench 83% LGA 2066 R4, 1 CPU, 14 cores, 28 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 74 1-Core 133 2-Core 254 84% 154 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 988 88% 746 Pts	64-Core 2,330 144% 2,330 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 95%

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: 388.71 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	119% Outstanding	Lighting 156 Reflection 175 Parallax 185 127% 172 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 176 Splatting 125 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$249 18,356 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 935GB free Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	223% Outstanding	Read 1,977 Write 1,679 Mixed 1,740 401% 1,798 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 86.7 4K Mixed 19.2 124% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 18.2 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 155 112% 138 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 223% Great: 363%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 465GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 38 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 18 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 70 61 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8312556	96.8% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 399 Mixed 420 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 58.1 4K Mixed 39.9 133% 43.9 MB/s	DQ Read 309 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 115 121% 203 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	185% Outstanding	Read 1,750 Write 1,158 Mixed 1,179 302% 1,362 MB/s	4K Read 40.7 4K Write 83.3 4K Mixed 23.8 136% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 21 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 8.43 32% 65.7 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 185% Great: 236%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 4000 C19 1x16GB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	30.4% Below average	MC Read 9.1 MC Write 12.6 MC Mixed 8.4 29% 10 GB/s	SC Read 7.9 SC Write 11.9 SC Mixed 8.6 27% 9.47 GB/s	Latency 92.4 43% 92.4 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 30.4% Great: 69%

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

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Workstation 94%

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Motherboard: Asus TUF X299 MARK 2

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	495x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	260x
Core i7-7740XIntel $130Bench 87%, 5,094 samples	148x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	168x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	151x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	92x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	78x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	60x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	56x

RAM
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	30x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	28x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $795

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 $179	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