Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	10.6% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	197% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 03 '19 at 21:47
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (78^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-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 110 2-Core 221 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 440 8-Core 707 70% 573 Pts	64-Core 835 52% 835 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6770 16,639 User benchmarks, average bench 10% Asus(1043 03FE) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	10.6% Very poor	Lighting 14 Reflection 10.8 Parallax 12 11% 12.3 fps	MRender 10 Gravity 10.3 Splatting 12.3 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 10.6% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
IRU-SSDPR-P34A-480-80A 480GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 235% 307GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM04.5 SusWrite @10s intervals: 1111 1155 1282 1107 948 910 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	197% Outstanding	Read 1,164 Write 386 Mixed 626 SusWrite 1,085 182% 815 MB/s	4K Read 39.8 4K Write 89 4K Mixed 51.5 173% 60.1 MB/s	DQ Read 744 DQ Write 623 DQ Mixed 606 475% 658 MB/s
Poor: 104% ↑ This bench: 197% Great: 858%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 71GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 74 79 79 77 77 77 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	45.3% Average	Read 80.7 Write 77 Mixed 54.4 SusWrite 77.2 53% 72.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.9 153% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x2GB 117 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4 of 8 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	MC Read 49 MC Write 47 MC Mixed 40.6 130% 45.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 15.4 SC Mixed 14.3 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 98%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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	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 $295	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