Asus Z9PA-D8 Series

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (35th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 65 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 67.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	76.5% 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	60.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB 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.

System	Asus Z9PA-D8 Series (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK Z9PA-D8 Series
Memory	34.7 GB free of 48 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150611
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Oct 28 '16 at 13:58
Run Duration	357 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
1st CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2680 0 1,642 User benchmarks, average bench 67% Socket-R 2011, 2 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	67.3% Good	Memory 73.1 1-Core 85.3 2-Core 169 63% 109 Pts	4-Core 330 8-Core 653 58% 492 Pts	64-Core 1,662 103% 1,662 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4991) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7306 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.5% Very good	Lighting 99 Reflection 105 Parallax 93.8 81% 99.1 fps	MRender 87.8 Gravity 90.2 Splatting 75.5 68% 84.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$175 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: 6B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11155 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 972 (B1) Unknown 94 94 207 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 51 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 214 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35803993773	60.9% Good	Read 473 Write 255 Mixed 401 83% 376 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 63.5 4K Mixed 13.5 87% 33.6 MB/s	DQ Read 22.2 DQ Write 34.7 DQ Mixed 13.4 14% 23.4 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 116%
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 29GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 110432199142459 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1268 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 382 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10316 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8203 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8203 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6258	33.8% Below average	Read 195 Write 57.5 Mixed 91 25% 114 MB/s	4K Read 20.2 4K Write 59.3 4K Mixed 8.85 73% 29.5 MB/s	DQ Read 18.3 DQ Write 52 DQ Mixed 22.9 21% 31.1 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 51%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$90 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 854GB free Firmware: 0A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 176 6125 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1285 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2366 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 192 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9421 (C2) HDA temperature 122 109 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	49.3% Average	Read 78.1 Write 93.3 Mixed 73.3 61% 81.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.18 89% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 96%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$72 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 490GB free Firmware: 1A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 159 156 7025 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7644 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 41117 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2264 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 199 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7509 (C2) HDA temperature 118 100 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.3% Average	Read 74.1 Write 66.2 Mixed 71 53% 70.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.33 94% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 57%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$60 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 468GB free Firmware: 1D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 169 4316 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6600 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 32701 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2012 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 465 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6134 (C2) HDA temperature 117 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	63.1% Good	Read 115 Write 104 Mixed 99 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 1.24 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.56 157% 1.38 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 76%
Generic Flash Disk 16GB 18,883 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 15GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	5.43% Terrible	Read 19.7 Write 7.09 Mixed 8.81 13% 11.9 MB/s	4K Read 4.28 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.005 16% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 5.43% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C-P 6x8GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 6 of 8 slots used 48GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	90% Outstanding	MC Read 54.8 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 27 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 6 SC Mixed 7.3 24% 8.27 GB/s	Latency 94.3 42% 94.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 90%

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Gaming 54%

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Desktop 70%

Battleship

Workstation 60%

Destroyer

System: Asus Z9PA-D8 Series

CPU
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 01stBench 65%, 4,306 samples	18x
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2667 v21stBench 74%, 880 samples	7x
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 01stBench 66%, 741 samples	7x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	8x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	6x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	5x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	4x
P3-256 256GBBench 69%, 2,367 samples	3x

RAM
M393B1G70BH0-CK 4x8GBSamsungBench 59%, 8 samples	3x
M393B1K70CH0-CH 4x8GBSamsungBench 51%, 15 samples	3x
M393B2G70DB0-YK 2x16GBSamsungBench 42%, 4 samples	2x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $372

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16