Asus X99-S

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 90% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 82%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	123% 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	81.6% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (56%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus X99-S (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '18 at 08:57
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	56%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	82% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 99 2-Core 196 76% 129 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 589 60% 487 Pts	64-Core 916 57% 916 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6393) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 188 Parallax 188 137% 182 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 168 Splatting 119 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD340 256GB-$194 1,962 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 234GB free Firmware: SVN560 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th 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 0 (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 100 100 940 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 295 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 2752512 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 189 189 558362460213 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1062 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C2) HDA temperature 57 57 184686215211 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 10 10 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 23740415488 (EA) Unknown 100 100 30002481408 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 12843521216 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4379104686	77.2% Very good	Read 469 Write 283 Mixed 352 82% 368 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 74.2 4K Mixed 21.2 100% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 23.4 81% 177 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 98%
Transcend SSD340 256GB-$194 1,962 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 196GB free (System drive) Firmware: SVN560 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th 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 0 (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 100 100 942 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 295 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 2162688 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 187 187 794589462573 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1071 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C2) HDA temperature 55 55 197571182637 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 10 10 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 32227243008 (EA) Unknown 100 100 30420414400 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 18445598302 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4916480033	81.6% Excellent	Read 496 Write 295 Mixed 354 84% 382 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 73.9 4K Mixed 22.8 108% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 251 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 23.7 84% 183 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 98%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$299 20,912 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.1% Very good	MC Read 30.2 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 23.9 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 19.7 50% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 91%

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Gaming 99%

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Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 87%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-S

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	211x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	81x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	41x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	52x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	32x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	26x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	29x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $98Bench 394%, 276,089 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	38x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GBCorsairBench 89%, 2,538 samples	15x
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	13x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $774

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