Asus PRIME X299-A

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 83.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.3% 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	185% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
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, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME X299-A (all builds)
Memory	60.3 GB free of 64 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180521
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '19 at 06:42
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7800X-$216 22,334 User benchmarks, average bench 78% LGA 2066 R4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	83.1% Excellent	Memory 81.3 1-Core 127 2-Core 254 85% 154 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 822 77% 638 Pts	64-Core 1,044 65% 1,044 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 431.36 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.3% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 112 Parallax 100 86% 106 fps	MRender 92.8 Gravity 95.8 Splatting 78.9 72% 89.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 132GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 644 328 329 328 328 329 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	185% Outstanding	Read 1660 Write 1,477 Mixed 562 SusWrite 381 226% 1,020 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 42.7 178% 71.3 MB/s	DQ Read 1009 DQ Write 855 DQ Mixed 647 563% 837 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 185% Great: 236%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 123 123 123 123 125 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	71.1% Very good	Read 125 Write 112 Mixed 73.3 SusWrite 122 80% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0.9 188% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 100%
SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 32GB-$16 13,359 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 18GB free, PID 5583 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.3 5.2 5.2 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	9.18% Terrible	Read 38.7 Write 4.2 Mixed 9 SusWrite 5.2 14% 14.3 MB/s	4K Read 6.4 4K Write 0.3 4K Mixed 0.5 51% 2.4 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 9.18% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x16GB 436 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	99.8% Outstanding	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 60.7 MC Mixed 30.5 113% 39.6 GB/s	SC Read 7.8 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 11.4 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 78.1 51% 78.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 136%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME X299-A

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	374x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	217x
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	148x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	192x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	93x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	57x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	49x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x

RAM
BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 4x4GBCrucialBench 82%, 497 samples	53x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	32x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	25x

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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 $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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