Asus PRIME X299-A

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	194% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME X299-A (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171114
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '18 at 06:46
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7800X-$216 22,334 User benchmarks, average bench 78% LGA 2066 R4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 86.4 1-Core 122 2-Core 243 84% 151 Pts	4-Core 482 8-Core 819 79% 650 Pts	64-Core 1,021 63% 1,021 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 377E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 150 Parallax 143 112% 143 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 141 Splatting 111 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 465GB free Firmware: 3B6Q 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 2 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 10 (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 71 68 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29414759	86.4% Excellent	Read 508 Write 412 Mixed 421 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 35.9 4K Mixed 28.6 94% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 120 128% 215 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 407GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	194% Outstanding	Read 1,916 Write 1,358 Mixed 1,261 335% 1,512 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 37.9 4K Mixed 19.2 84% 27.6 MB/s	DQ Read 30.6 DQ Write 409 DQ Mixed 16.9 74% 152 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 194% Great: 254%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$36 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	63.3% Good	MC Read 20.1 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 17.6 66% 23.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 24.2 SC Mixed 11.3 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 70.9 56% 70.9 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 109%

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

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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 $420Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	148x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	192x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 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 $273	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 $177	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