Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	74.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 23 '18 at 02:08
Run Duration	179 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (55^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 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	86% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 106 2-Core 210 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 421 8-Core 628 65% 525 Pts	64-Core 800 50% 800 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 416.94 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 153 Parallax 144 114% 146 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 144 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 240GB-$196 15,660 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 89GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFZ12.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 283 139 159 127 163 167 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Read 473 Write 439 Mixed 371 SusWrite 173 82% 364 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 47.5 4K Mixed 28.9 96% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 193 186% 293 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 95%
OCZ Vertex 460A 240GB-$177 1,086 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 46GB free Firmware: 1.01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 170 170 171 171 157 171 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	59.1% Above average	Read 335 Write 157 Mixed 194 SusWrite 168 47% 213 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 46.3 4K Mixed 24.5 88% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 165 129% 180 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 108%
PNY SSD2SC120G3LC709B121-460P 120GB 507 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 30GB free Firmware: 541ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 106 101 103 99 103 106 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	55.3% Above average	Read 366 Write 125 Mixed 148 SusWrite 103 41% 185 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 54.7 4K Mixed 28.3 96% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 75.4 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 91.5 71% 95.6 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 55.3% Great: 64%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 524GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 145 145 143 147 149 151 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Read 150 Write 134 Mixed 79.5 SusWrite 147 93% 127 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.2 236% 1.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 109%
Maxtor OneTouch 500GB 752 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 396GB free, PID 7310 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 21 28 28 28 28 28 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	11.4% Very poor	Read 30.7 Write 4 Mixed 9.3 SusWrite 26.9 21% 17.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.3 4K Mixed 0.3 23% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 11.4% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 21,220 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 18.2 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 12.4 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 59.8 67% 59.8 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 62%

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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%

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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 $178	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