Asus P9X79

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 21% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	27.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The 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.
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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 14 '19 at 14:38
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	72.3% Very good	Memory 89 1-Core 64.3 2-Core 182 65% 112 Pts	4-Core 301 8-Core 498 49% 400 Pts	64-Core 500 31% 500 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7870-$203 42,130 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Sapphire(174B E241) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	27.8% Poor	Lighting 35.1 Reflection 32 Parallax 45 29% 37.4 fps	MRender 28.1 Gravity 29.6 Splatting 36.6 26% 31.4 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 27.8% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 256GB 641 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM61.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 80 36 63 64 17 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Read 243 Write 185 Mixed 163 SusWrite 58.1 121% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 3.8 465% 1.87 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 79GB free Firmware: CC27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 76 82 82 82 82 104 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Read 139 Write 99.8 Mixed 73.1 SusWrite 84.6 73% 99.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.9 159% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 114%
Hitachi HDS721032CLA362 320GB-$150 10,092 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 42GB free Firmware: JPFOA39C SusWrite @10s intervals: 47 53 49 48 51 53 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	32.4% Below average	Read 62.9 Write 59.2 Mixed 35.7 SusWrite 49.9 38% 51.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.8 136% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 32.4% Great: 50%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB-$80 27,325 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 44GB free Firmware: SD15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 53 53 54 52 53 54 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	30.2% Below average	Read 51.9 Write 9 Mixed 22.2 SusWrite 53.2 25% 34.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.7 131% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 30.2% Great: 59%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 8GB 539 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 3GB free, PID 1f00 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 7.1 7.9 8.1 8.6 8 8.6 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	5.71% Terrible	Read 17.4 Write 3 Mixed 1.7 SusWrite 8 8% 7.53 MB/s	4K Read 6.1 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 23% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.71% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 3,839 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 31.9 MC Mixed 28.8 87% 30.5 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 6.6 23% 8.1 GB/s	Latency 68.5 58% 68.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 87%

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

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	652x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	230x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
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	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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