Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 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. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	120% 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	60.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	40GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 40GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	30.7 GB free of 40 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120618
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '18 at 12:52
Run Duration	216 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Memory 84 1-Core 93.2 2-Core 184 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 363 8-Core 572 58% 468 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 161 Reflection 194 Parallax 178 131% 178 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 168 Splatting 123 113% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 395GB free Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	255% Outstanding	Read 1,713 Write 1,930 Mixed 1,590 390% 1,744 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 54.8 180% 68.3 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 139 143% 232 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 255% Great: 353%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 38GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17943 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 263 (A5) Unknown 100 100 919329114834 (A6) Unknown 100 100 13 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 64 (A9) Unknown 100 100 445 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 36 (AE) Unknown 100 100 38 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 287764250657 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8087508223835 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 17481 (EA) Unknown 100 100 56766 (F1) Unknown 253 253 38404 (F2) Unknown 253 253 19888 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	67% Good	Read 487 Write 333 Mixed 275 81% 365 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 22.8 4K Mixed 15.6 63% 19.6 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 38.9 68% 135 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17943 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 262 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1254336891567 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A8) Unknown 100 100 58 (A9) Unknown 100 100 409 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 30 (AE) Unknown 100 100 37 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 63 270584447012 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8044542691153 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 14385 (EA) Unknown 100 100 56052 (F1) Unknown 253 253 40213 (F2) Unknown 253 253 20519 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	60.9% Good	Read 489 Write 281 Mixed 235 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 17.3 4K Write 22.3 4K Mixed 14.7 57% 18.1 MB/s	DQ Read 209 DQ Write 99.9 DQ Mixed 35.6 58% 115 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 108%
Samsung MZ7LN128HCHP-000H1 128GB 5,673 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 20GB free Firmware: EMT02H0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 11529 (0B) Calibration retry count 99 99 29 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 84 (AA) Unknown 100 100 394 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 4 (AE) Unknown 99 99 29 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 19 (BE) vendor-specific 59 53 41 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0	53.4% Above average	Read 360 Write 149 Mixed 208 52% 239 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 29.5 4K Mixed 21.4 74% 23.7 MB/s	DQ Read 200 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 71.6 77% 129 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 87%
Toshiba MD04ACA500 5TB-$154 3,810 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8573 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10768 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 17922 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 266 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 18484 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 227634839591 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 90 90 4092 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 300 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	77.9% Very good	Read 145 Write 126 Mixed 123 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 1.23 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.27 116% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 110%
Toshiba MD04ACA500 5TB-$154 3,810 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: FP2A 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 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8406 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10634 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 17917 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 49 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 13081 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 219044839463 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 94 94 2697 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 296 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 57% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 5x8GB 5 of 8 slots used 40GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	65.2% Good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 23.7 MC Mixed 23.2 70% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 12.2 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	434x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	60x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $812

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 $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