Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	61.1% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 18 '19 at 15:25
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 90 1-Core 95.5 2-Core 191 73% 125 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 581 65% 512 Pts	64-Core 582 36% 582 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6284) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 418.81 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	106% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 144 Parallax 121 113% 135 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 133 Splatting 105 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120GB-$106 3,124 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 SusWrite @10s intervals: 175 190 197 191 177 183 MB/s Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	61.1% Good	Read 242 Write 202 Mixed 204 SusWrite 186 47% 208 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 68.3 4K Mixed 25.8 104% 39 MB/s	DQ Read 199 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 132 115% 171 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 88%
Crucial BX500 240GB-$28 142,801 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 36GB free Firmware: R013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 224 242 214 70 65 75 MB/s Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	60.2% Good	Read 259 Write 242 Mixed 234 SusWrite 149 50% 221 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 79.1 4K Mixed 23 107% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 49.2 78% 149 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 92%
Seagate Expansion 1TB 60,540 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 33GB free Firmware: 0707 SusWrite @10s intervals: 26 29 29 30 30 30 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	16.9% Very poor	Read 28.6 Write 23.9 Mixed 24.1 SusWrite 29.3 20% 26.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 3.2 4K Mixed 0.6 155% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 16.9% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-020.A00LF 99U5471-020.A00LF 99U5584-018.A00LF 99U5584-018.A00LF 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.1% Average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 16.8 MC Mixed 15.9 49% 17 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 13.8 SC Mixed 11.3 38% 13.1 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 81%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	655x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	363x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	233x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	87x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	86x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 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	28x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $508

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	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