Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	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 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	24.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 28 '18 at 19:29
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	SAU-User
Background CPU	14%

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 i7-3970X-$217 2,677 User benchmarks, average bench 78% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	80% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 90.4 2-Core 192 73% 125 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 564 58% 468 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3669) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Lighting 92.3 Reflection 88.7 Parallax 78.7 75% 86.6 fps	MRender 80.5 Gravity 78.3 Splatting 70.3 62% 76.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 125GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 193 132 126 127 125 126 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	Read 450 Write 352 Mixed 326 SusWrite 138 71% 316 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 59.4 4K Mixed 33.6 110% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 393 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 353 266% 358 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 56GB free Firmware: 506ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 94 89 88 87 88 87 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	36.8% Below average	Read 140 Write 102 Mixed 111 SusWrite 88.8 25% 110 MB/s	4K Read 15.7 4K Write 35.8 4K Mixed 18.6 67% 23.4 MB/s	DQ Read 127 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 77.4 69% 104 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 73%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 732GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 136 136 131 149 159 165 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 166 Mixed 86.7 SusWrite 146 106% 144 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.1 217% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	MC Read 38.1 MC Write 36.4 MC Mixed 33.6 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 12.5 SC Mixed 12.4 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 92%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	653x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	363x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	231x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	39x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16