Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 54% Yacht


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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	85.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	61.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120803
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 13 '18 at 18:04
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	7%

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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 i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	73% Very good	Memory 85.6 1-Core 98.3 2-Core 192 73% 125 Pts	4-Core 327 8-Core 479 50% 403 Pts	64-Core 500 31% 500 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	85.6% Excellent	Lighting 99 Reflection 145 Parallax 139 81% 128 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 130 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 111GB free (System drive) Firmware: BBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 17087651 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -129673652593939 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 950 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 368 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 24 49 38657916952 (C2) HDA temperature 24 49 38657916952 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17087651 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17087651 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17087651 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 15878 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13399 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13399 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9952	61.4% Good	Read 509 Write 187 Mixed 198 65% 298 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 62.4 4K Mixed 15 79% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 123 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 42 59% 108 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 85%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$109 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 933GB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 171 6050 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1446 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3311 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 770 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 754 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4513 (C2) HDA temperature 126 113 24 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	71.2% Very good	Read 132 Write 116 Mixed 129 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.23 78% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 697GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 125708352 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6344 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 118234968 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14231 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2004 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 85 68720590897 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 47 17600413719 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 385 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 63 63 74428 (C2) HDA temperature 23 53 -140737488355305 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 113 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 1288490196039 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26907166973 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22218542352	94% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 157 Mixed 150 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.38 105% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 605GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 46728226 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11701 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 24 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 277672844 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 33325 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 32 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3771 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 141736083508 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 158 (BE) vendor-specific 74 36 12391485145114 (C2) HDA temperature 26 64 17179869210 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 22 46728226 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -29918742152124 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3816113726 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2690622784	62.5% Good	Read 106 Write 112 Mixed 95.8 78% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.4 87% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 70%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 327GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 17 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 74 63 8125 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10320 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 24145 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3237 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 13312 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 41 253403725849 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 409 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 10556	66.1% Good	Read 111 Write 119 Mixed 108 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.45 118% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 75%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 297GB free Firmware: AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 164 6466 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7536 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 25879 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3258 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 846 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 57 57 430859 (C2) HDA temperature 126 93 24 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	33.8% Below average	Read 58.6 Write 58.8 Mixed 46.2 41% 54.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.18 73% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5474-028.A00LF 99U5474-028.A00LF Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 16GB 1066, 1066, 1066, 1066 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	67.2% Good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 23.6 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 14.2 SC Mixed 12.1 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $320

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 $129Bench 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: $796

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