Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.9% 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	40.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). 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 SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131224
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 04 '18 at 07:16
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K 4,060 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 127 2-Core 253 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 745 77% 618 Pts	64-Core 933 58% 933 Pts
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.9% Excellent	Lighting 100 Reflection 112 Parallax 95.7 82% 103 fps	MRender 97.7 Gravity 94.9 Splatting 99 80% 97.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM71.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 29 92 42 24 4.5 62 MB/s Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	40.5% Average	Read 158 Write 97 Mixed 108 SusWrite 42.3 22% 101 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 48.8 4K Mixed 21.5 85% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 97.4 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 126 96% 128 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 83%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4TB free Firmware: FP2A SusWrite @10s intervals: 195 196 200 196 195 197 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 63% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 42.8 MC Write 40.7 MC Mixed 36.6 114% 40 GB/s	SC Read 19.7 SC Write 16.7 SC Mixed 15.4 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 77%

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

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	443x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	387x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	106x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	105x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	102x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	64x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	30x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $808

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16