Asrock X299 Taichi XE

Performance Results


Gaming 139% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 181% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	140% 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	162% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Run History

Motherboard	Asrock X299 Taichi XE (all builds)
Memory	59.4 GB free of 64 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1081 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '18 at 15:15
Run Duration	260 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7960X-$347 2,322 User benchmarks, average bench 83% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	98% Outstanding	Memory 83.1 1-Core 150 2-Core 300 96% 178 Pts	4-Core 604 8-Core 1,203 107% 903 Pts	64-Core 3,327 206% 3,327 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 99%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% PNY(196E 1211) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 3252 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	Lighting 199 Reflection 212 Parallax 211 162% 207 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 193 Splatting 134 124% 154 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 817GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	287% Outstanding	Read 2,380 Write 1,976 Mixed 2,028 474% 2,128 MB/s	4K Read 49.4 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 49.9 195% 68.3 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 120 129% 219 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 287% Great: 254%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 817GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	287% Outstanding	Read 2,350 Write 1,972 Mixed 2,240 488% 2,187 MB/s	4K Read 51.6 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 51.1 200% 69.6 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 120 129% 219 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 287% Great: 254%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 393GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF121C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	162% Outstanding	Read 1,566 Write 552 Mixed 794 212% 971 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 46.7 170% 64.9 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 254 DQ Mixed 151 155% 255 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 162% Great: 144%
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 338GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th 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 23560 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4587 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 49 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4404 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 53 201864511517 (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 100 100 135 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 33545021730 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1052235582 (F8) Unknown 100 100 511324702	102% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 478 Mixed 485 109% 489 MB/s	4K Read 29.7 4K Write 96.7 4K Mixed 34.4 140% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 147 DQ Write 291 DQ Mixed 50.7 86% 163 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 107%
OCZ INTREPID 3700 240GB 129 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 179GB free Firmware: 1.5.0.7 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12757 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6878 (64) Unknown 100 100 4232736 (AB) Unknown 83 0 2823 (AE) Unknown 32 100 2259 (B8) Unknown 16 100 569 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 45 62 4069677 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 0 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 0 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 4232 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 5259 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1868415257 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 100 100 10000 (CE) Flying height 0 100 0 (CF) Spin high current 111 100 3350 (D0) Spin buzz 2 100 61 (D2) Unknown 100 100 21618 (D3) Unknown 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 547 (D5) Unknown 100 100 105 (D6) Unknown 100 100 442 (DD) G-sense error rate 100 100 29456 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 1 100 1 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100 (F9) Unknown 100 100 10053 (FB) Unknown 100 100 17845	84.1% Excellent	Read 469 Write 207 Mixed 288 71% 321 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 98.7 4K Mixed 26.3 138% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 87.2 114% 208 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 88%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 143GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th 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 6297 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6465 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6249 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 55 193274511390 (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 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 12200633068 (F7) Unknown 100 100 384632662 (F8) Unknown 100 100 143855879 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1936 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	59.8% Above average	Read 356 Write 239 Mixed 244 62% 280 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 42.6 4K Mixed 17.8 80% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 211 DQ Write 95.6 DQ Mixed 47.4 63% 118 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 99%
Hitachi HUS724030ALE641 3TB 13,833 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 3TB free Firmware: MJ8OA5F0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 81 (03) Spinup time 173 173 30086529414 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5593 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 22663 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1992 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5997 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5997 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 214749544483 (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 200 200 0	72.6% Very good	Read 90.7 Write 162 Mixed 135 98% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.24 98% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 319GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 242504712 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7902 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 5112398 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7181 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3304 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 67 56 555810849 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1682 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18641 (C2) HDA temperature 33 44 42949672993 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -71253507438451 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27412169334 (F2) Unknown 100 253 36677980580	82.4% Excellent	Read 134 Write 154 Mixed 142 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.18 58% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8x8GB 4,255 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 8 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3211 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	135% Outstanding	MC Read 48 MC Write 69.9 MC Mixed 47 157% 55 GB/s	SC Read 8.7 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 11.6 44% 15.4 GB/s	Latency 75 53% 75 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 142%

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Gaming 168%

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 181%

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Motherboard: Asrock X299 Taichi XE

CPU
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	27x
Core i9-7980XEIntel $1,511Bench 80%, 4,653 samples	16x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	14x

GPU
RTX 3090Nvidia $1,306Bench 210%, 158,856 samples	20x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	16x
RTX 3080-TiNvidia $660Bench 204%, 155,335 samples	9x

SSD
970 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $170Bench 322%, 93,447 samples	12x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	9x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	7x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	29x
4x16GBUnknownBench 98%, 9,153 samples	18x
8x8GBUnknownBench 94%, 4,255 samples	7x

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Value: 47% - Average

Total price: $1,931

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 $178	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