Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.2% 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	44.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

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Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131015
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 01 '18 at 14:31
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.1% Excellent	Memory 96.3 1-Core 90.8 2-Core 207 76% 131 Pts	4-Core 346 8-Core 523 54% 434 Pts	64-Core 530 33% 530 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 118 Parallax 110 92% 114 fps	MRender 99.2 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LX 256GB-$129 2,404 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 167GB free (System drive) Firmware: N0530C SusWrite @10s intervals: 75 75 75 75 37 76 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	44.6% Average	Read 316 Write 150 Mixed 174 SusWrite 68.9 39% 177 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 29.6 4K Mixed 17.7 71% 22.9 MB/s	DQ Read 190 DQ Write 90.2 DQ Mixed 54 63% 111 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 44.6% Great: 99%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 253GB 636 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 206GB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 275 275 276 277 277 277 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	70% Good	Read 461 Write 277 Mixed 266 SusWrite 276 71% 320 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 34 4K Mixed 23 81% 26.3 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 176 142% 204 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 116%
Crucial BX100 1TB-$500 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 161GB free Firmware: MU01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 78 76 75 77 110 76 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	44.9% Average	Read 316 Write 149 Mixed 23.5 SusWrite 81.9 31% 143 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 21.8 4K Mixed 22 65% 20.1 MB/s	DQ Read 189 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 130 102% 143 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 44.9% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 182 192 189 191 191 194 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 121 Mixed 81 SusWrite 190 107% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 148% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 114%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 319GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 187 189 188 187 187 188 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Read 141 Write 129 Mixed 29.7 SusWrite 188 88% 122 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 5.1 4K Mixed 2.1 382% 2.83 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 3,839 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 38 MC Write 42.9 MC Mixed 39.9 115% 40.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 11.6 SC Mixed 13.3 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 53 76% 53 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 87%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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 $109Bench 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: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $896

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 $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