Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 111% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	138% 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	83.4% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	59.5 GB free of 64 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 09:27
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	SVK-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4960X-$1,189 5,121 User benchmarks, average bench 78% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	Memory 91.7 1-Core 110 2-Core 218 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 654 60% 505 Pts	64-Core 547 34% 547 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 1471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2800 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	138% Outstanding	Lighting 193 Reflection 221 Parallax 214 157% 209 fps	MRender 139 Gravity 198 Splatting 137 128% 158 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 284GB free Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3320 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 943 (B1) Unknown 97 97 56 (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 69 58 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 60 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18579010730	68.4% Good	Read 268 Write 213 Mixed 220 52% 234 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 57.8 4K Mixed 34.7 122% 41.2 MB/s	DQ Read 168 DQ Write 140 DQ Mixed 91.9 86% 133 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 173GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1697 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 435 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 65 57 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18338603392	83.4% Excellent	Read 509 Write 397 Mixed 407 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 65 4K Mixed 25.1 119% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 43.1 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 23 32% 55.7 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 134%
WD Purple 2TB (2014)-$67 19,126 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 587GB free Firmware: 0A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 175 4091 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 400 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 754 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 172 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 35 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 364 (C2) HDA temperature 121 110 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	56.5% Above average	Read 100 Write 96.1 Mixed 92.3 72% 96.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.24 84% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G3D18ADS3.16F Adata DDR3 2400 2OZ BLS8G3D18ADS3.16F Adata DDR3 2400 2OZ BLS8G3D18ADS3.16F Adata DDR3 2400 2OZ BLS8G3D18ADS3.16F Adata DDR3 2400 2OZ 64GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 43 MC Write 43 MC Mixed 40.1 120% 42 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 14.7 SC Mixed 13.8 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 107%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	542x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	90x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	35x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	19x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $896

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