Asus ROG STRIX X99 GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.5% 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	227% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX X99 GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160427
Uptime	13.6 Days
Run Date	Oct 11 '18 at 01:37
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6850K-$115 29,279 User benchmarks, average bench 84% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 126 2-Core 248 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 780 75% 616 Pts	64-Core 965 60% 965 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 399.24 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 111 Parallax 102 88% 107 fps	MRender 91 Gravity 96.9 Splatting 90.2 76% 92.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 150GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0174 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 837 670 650 804 735 803 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	227% Outstanding	Read 1,086 Write 924 Mixed 665 SusWrite 750 192% 856 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 265 4K Mixed 59 284% 123 MB/s	DQ Read 1,460 DQ Write 942 DQ Mixed 1022 810% 1,141 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 227% Great: 230%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$20 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 311GB free Firmware: SC13 SusWrite @10s intervals: 104 104 103 104 104 104 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	57.4% Above average	Read 95.8 Write 98 Mixed 50.8 SusWrite 104 64% 87.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.7 134% 1 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 57.4% Great: 60%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 122GB free Firmware: 12.01C02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 94 94 94 94 91 91 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	54.3% Above average	Read 95.7 Write 93 Mixed 62.8 SusWrite 93 63% 86.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.9 172% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 69%
Samsung Portable SSD T1 500GB 104 User benchmarks, average bench 170% 70GB free, PID 8002 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 302 298 283 283 281 276 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	310% Outstanding	Read 297 Write 308 Mixed 264 SusWrite 287 394% 289 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 64.2 4K Mixed 37.7 3,572% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 30.8 DQ Write 79 DQ Mixed 42.2 4,237% 50.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 310% Great: 329%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96.7% Outstanding	MC Read 35.1 MC Write 43.4 MC Mixed 33.2 106% 37.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 18.6 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 96.7% Great: 61%

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

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X99 GAMING - $300

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	523x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	258x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	242x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	284x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	173x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	155x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	41x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	41x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	21x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	20x
CT8G4DFS824A.C8FHD1 2x8GBCrucialBench 71%, 3,272 samples	18x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $692

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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16