Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 78.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	85.2% 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	63.2% 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.

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Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 11 '19 at 15:49
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3960X 4,885 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	78.5% Very good	Memory 90.5 1-Core 103 2-Core 200 76% 131 Pts	4-Core 360 8-Core 570 57% 465 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 431.36 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 115 Parallax 101 89% 108 fps	MRender 95 Gravity 102 Splatting 92.3 79% 96.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 200GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 88 88 91 92 91 92 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	63.2% Good	Read 353 Write 159 Mixed 195 SusWrite 90.3 44% 199 MB/s	4K Read 30.8 4K Write 46 4K Mixed 35 116% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 156 118% 162 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 124%
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB-$80 4,893 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 194GB free Firmware: 2.22 SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 93 96 95 95 96 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	57.1% Above average	Read 328 Write 156 Mixed 191 SusWrite 94.7 43% 193 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 46.3 4K Mixed 26.7 96% 32.6 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 171 132% 183 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 91%
WD Purple Surveillance 1TB (2017)-$45 9,464 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 622GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 138 141 141 142 141 139 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Read 151 Write 146 Mixed 85 SusWrite 140 96% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 1.1 207% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 89%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 111GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 118 118 118 118 118 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Read 112 Write 118 Mixed 66.3 SusWrite 118 76% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 3 4K Mixed 1 208% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 493GB free Firmware: CC4B SusWrite @10s intervals: 95 102 108 102 106 103 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	72.6% Very good	Read 150 Write 111 Mixed 66 SusWrite 102 79% 108 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.9 172% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	MC Read 34.6 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 29.2 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 13.3 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 76%

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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 - $240

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	434x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	60x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $716

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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