Asus X99-A II

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	103% 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	229% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

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Motherboard	Asus X99-A II (all builds)
Memory	20.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161108
Uptime	5.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 28 '18 at 02:40
Run Duration	324 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	32%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6850K-$115 29,279 User benchmarks, average bench 84% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Memory 89.3 1-Core 105 2-Core 220 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 693 68% 557 Pts	64-Core 867 54% 867 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 142 Parallax 122 108% 132 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 135 Splatting 107 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 768GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 19892 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 325 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 13 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 40 257698693161 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1453745974 (F7) Unknown 100 100 45595038 (F8) Unknown 100 100 113330549	75.7% Very good	Read 486 Write 367 Mixed 418 94% 424 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 95.2 4K Mixed 4.5 98% 42.5 MB/s	DQ Read 27.6 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 26.9 60% 114 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 97%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 768GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 42 100 298 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 55 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 249108103205 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 27 (F1) Unknown 253 253 15 (F2) Unknown 253 253 38	69.6% Good	Read 452 Write 364 Mixed 410 91% 409 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 95.2 4K Mixed 4.28 96% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 31.1 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 4.32 22% 47.5 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 86%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 768GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 16853 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 555 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1073898588137 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 46 (A8) Unknown 100 100 50 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 24 (AE) Unknown 100 100 67 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 61 261993791532 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6622911923718 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5505 (EA) Unknown 100 100 21269 (F1) Unknown 253 253 13167 (F2) Unknown 253 253 23824 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	64.3% Good	Read 484 Write 255 Mixed 288 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 65.2 4K Mixed 3.19 81% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 149 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 15.8 54% 117 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 101%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 768GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 236 100 1516 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 86 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1345 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1397 (A9) Unknown 100 100 24 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1373 (AE) Unknown 100 100 19 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 48 100 287762808884 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 45 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 312492 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2459 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5345	78.6% Very good	Read 479 Write 367 Mixed 413 93% 420 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 93.9 4K Mixed 4.55 97% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 193 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 22.9 77% 165 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 86%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 106GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	229% Outstanding	Read 2,131 Write 1,334 Mixed 1,157 340% 1,541 MB/s	4K Read 47.2 4K Write 90.7 4K Mixed 36.3 166% 58.1 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 24.5 86% 190 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 229% Great: 254%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 171 2208 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9571 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16419 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 350 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10109 (C2) HDA temperature 108 81 35 (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	84.5% Excellent	Read 144 Write 151 Mixed 129 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 1.25 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.28 124% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 109%
LEXAR JD FIREFLY 1GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 0GB free, PID a560 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	5.69% Terrible	Read 13 Write 9.55 Mixed 11 14% 11.2 MB/s	4K Read 4.99 4K Write 0.18 4K Mixed 0.18 31% 1.78 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 5.69% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 2,270 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	MC Read 34.6 MC Write 44.1 MC Mixed 34.3 108% 37.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 18.3 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 135%

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Workstation 77%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A II - $294

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	694x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	194x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	189x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	213x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	180x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	63x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	40x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	29x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	23x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	19x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $906

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 $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 $40	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