Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.2% 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	60% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 06 '19 at 00:54
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Memory 87.9 1-Core 85.2 2-Core 188 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 370 8-Core 598 59% 484 Pts	64-Core 695 43% 695 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K4000 11,114 User benchmarks, average bench 13% Nvidia(10DE 097C) 3GB CLim: 810 MHz, MLim: 1404 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 425.31 Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	13.2% Very poor	Lighting 15.1 Reflection 14.1 Parallax 18.7 12% 16 fps	MRender 20.7 Gravity 18.3 Splatting 16.6 15% 18.5 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 13.2% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 240GB-$139 12,595 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i SusWrite @10s intervals: 156 186 157 154 245 167 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	60% Above average	Read 354 Write 246 Mixed 266 SusWrite 178 58% 261 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 36.4 4K Mixed 23.7 80% 26.6 MB/s	DQ Read 244 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 245 180% 235 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 95%
Intel 540s Series 1TB 1,702 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 610GB free Firmware: LSF036C SusWrite @10s intervals: 238 117 126 113 132 145 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	63.3% Good	Read 426 Write 411 Mixed 350 SusWrite 145 75% 333 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 38.8 4K Mixed 23.8 78% 26.7 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 232 192% 275 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 3,744 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	MC Read 34.9 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 30.8 95% 33.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 13.4 SC Mixed 11.5 38% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 69.6 58% 69.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 85%

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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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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	650x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	229x

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 $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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