Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 94%
Nuclear submarine
Desktop
Desktop 78%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 81%
Aircraft carrier
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith 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 78%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics121% 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 DriveThe 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.
Memory32GB 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 VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
Run History
MotherboardAsus SABERTOOTH X79  (all builds)
Memory26.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20131015
Uptime0 Days
Run DateNov 17 '18 at 23:59
Run Duration145 Seconds
Run User USA-User
Background CPU2%

 PC Performing above expectations (60th percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Core i7-4930K-$100
LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads
Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
Performing above expectations (61st percentile)
78% Very good
Memory 84.7
1-Core 102
2-Core 198
74% 128 Pts
4-Core 385
8-Core 612
61% 498 Pts
64-Core 707
44% 707 Pts
Poor: 67%
This bench: 78%
Great: 88%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485
EVGA(3842 6598) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 416.81
Performing below potential (40th percentile) - GPU OC Guide
121% Outstanding
Lighting 162
Reflection 194
Parallax 192
132% 183 fps
MRender 126
Gravity 179
Splatting 125
116% 143 fps
Poor: 109%
This bench: 121%
Great: 133%
Drives BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75
172GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 115 121 113 122 128 MB/s
Performing below expectations (29th percentile)
73.7% Very good
Read 136
Write 128
Mixed 75.5
SusWrite 119
84% 115 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 5.6
4K Mixed 1.6
311% 2.63 MB/s
Poor: 43%
This bench: 73.7%
Great: 108%
Toshiba MK1059GS 1TB
930GB free
Firmware: 1U
SusWrite @10s intervals: 77 78 79 77 80 80 MB/s
Performing way above expectations (93rd percentile)
48.1% Average
Read 88.7
Write 80.8
Mixed 23.3
SusWrite 78.6
49% 67.8 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.5
108% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 25%
This bench: 48.1%
Great: 50%
Toshiba MQ01ABD0 320GB
288GB free
Firmware: 3M
SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 97 97 99 99 99 MB/s
Performing way above expectations (98th percentile)
56% Above average
Read 96.7
Write 95.2
Mixed 34.5
SusWrite 98.3
59% 81.2 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 1.4
4K Mixed 0.5
102% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 24%
This bench: 56%
Great: 55%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78
4.5TB free
Firmware: FS2A
SusWrite @10s intervals: 195 190 200 198 196 200 MB/s
Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 58% Great: 109%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866 4x8GB
4 of 8 slots used
32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz
Performing as expected (41st percentile)
85% Excellent
MC Read 34.7
MC Write 33.2
MC Mixed 31.5
95% 33.1 GB/s
SC Read 14.3
SC Write 12.9
SC Mixed 12
37% 13.1 GB/s
Latency 72.3
55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 44%
This bench: 85%
Great: 114%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical SABERTOOTH X79 Builds (Compare 1,773 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 45%
Speed boat
Desktop
Desktop 79%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 39%
Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $320

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 76% - Very good Total price: $796
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