Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	35.1% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	3.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140507
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 01 '18 at 07:12
Run Duration	279 Seconds
Run User	KWT-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3960X 4,885 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 84.8 2-Core 175 69% 117 Pts	4-Core 349 8-Core 522 54% 436 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6161) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60% Good	Lighting 75.2 Reflection 74.8 Parallax 65 61% 71.7 fps	MRender 71.6 Gravity 68.6 Splatting 70.7 58% 70.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: BBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 51441201 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -105200928945209 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1370 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 347 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 36 45 64427458596 (C2) HDA temperature 36 45 64427458596 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 51441201 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 51441201 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 51441201 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8715 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7733 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7733 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7787	35.1% Below average	Read 244 Write 109 Mixed 119 34% 158 MB/s	4K Read 12.8 4K Write 41.3 4K Mixed 8.43 52% 20.8 MB/s	DQ Read 60 DQ Write 99.4 DQ Mixed 23.7 34% 61.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 35.1% Great: 73%
Samsung HD321HJ 320GB 5,512 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 97GB free Firmware: 1118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3300 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 3974 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 11883 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 6579 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 6 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3782 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 80 62 336461844 (C2) HDA temperature 73 59 453902363 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 32020 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0
Poor: 18% Great: 64%
WD WD1600AABS-00PRA0 160GB 8,028 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 57GB free Firmware: 3A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 154 153 3258 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4003 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5809 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3163 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 665 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4003 (C2) HDA temperature 114 92 29 (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 42 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	44% Average	Read 90.6 Write 62.5 Mixed 92.4 62% 81.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.36 87% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 52%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 991782 (996782) 992012 (997012) 991782 (996782) 992012 (997012) 8GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	80.7% Excellent	MC Read 33.6 MC Write 30.5 MC Mixed 29.3 89% 31.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 11 37% 12.8 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 84%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	542x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	35x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	19x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $881

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $45	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