Asrock X299 Taichi XE

Performance Results


Gaming 128% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 164% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 99.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	128% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB 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

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Motherboard	Asrock X299 Taichi XE (all builds)
Memory	43.4 GB free of 48 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 13:01
Run Duration	235 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 2.8 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	99.9% Outstanding	Memory 90 1-Core 147 2-Core 294 97% 177 Pts	4-Core 588 8-Core 1,172 104% 880 Pts	64-Core 3,274 203% 3,274 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 99.9% 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: 397.64 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	128% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 183 Parallax 149 138% 167 fps	MRender 141 Gravity 196 Splatting 139 128% 158 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 128% 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% 505GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	296% Outstanding	Read 2,363 Write 2,033 Mixed 2,049 479% 2,149 MB/s	4K Read 54.3 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 51.8 211% 74.8 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 128 143% 246 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 296% Great: 254%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 505GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	294% Outstanding	Read 2,322 Write 2,028 Mixed 1,927 466% 2,092 MB/s	4K Read 55.3 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 50.7 212% 75.2 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 129 144% 247 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 294% Great: 254%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 352GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF121C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	162% Outstanding	Read 1,576 Write 548 Mixed 787 212% 970 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 46.1 169% 64.7 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 145 148% 242 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 162% Great: 144%
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 as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 22 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13243 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7034 (64) Unknown 100 100 4337824 (AB) Unknown 82 0 2801 (AE) Unknown 33 100 2348 (B8) Unknown 16 100 569 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 11 (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 22 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 4349 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 5378 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1931801859 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 100 100 10000 (CE) Flying height 0 100 0 (CF) Spin high current 113 100 3413 (D0) Spin buzz 2 100 63 (D2) Unknown 100 100 21618 (D3) Unknown 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 653 (D5) Unknown 100 100 123 (D6) Unknown 100 100 530 (DD) G-sense error rate 100 100 36376 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 11 (E6) GMR head amplitude 1 100 1 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100 (F9) Unknown 100 100 10306 (FB) Unknown 100 100 18225	77.2% Very good	Read 345 Write 212 Mixed 259 60% 272 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 99.2 4K Mixed 26.2 137% 52.9 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 84.2 102% 179 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 88%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 145GB 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 6817 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6621 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6381 (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 12549844600 (F7) Unknown 100 100 395879276 (F8) Unknown 100 100 147778581 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1936 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	59.7% Above average	Read 353 Write 240 Mixed 233 61% 275 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 42.7 4K Mixed 17.9 81% 27.9 MB/s	DQ Read 213 DQ Write 93.4 DQ Mixed 47.4 63% 118 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 59.7% 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 way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 82 (03) Spinup time 169 169 42970055081 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5991 (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 23186 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2141 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 7155 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 7155 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 214749544477 (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	85.2% Excellent	Read 141 Write 156 Mixed 154 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.21 103% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 318GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 17096056 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8301 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5914564 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7703 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3457 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21475229702 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 471269404 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1757 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 20163 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 42949672988 (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 -120679991080497 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31162756660 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40822099742	75% Very good	Read 140 Write 122 Mixed 119 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.18 60% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6x8GB 2,890 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 6 of 8 slots used 48GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3208 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	76.6% Very good	MC Read 25.2 MC Write 35.9 MC Mixed 24.2 81% 28.4 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 13.2 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 85%

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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 $462Bench 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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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 $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