Asus P9X79

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 79.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	112% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	43.9 GB free of 48 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 01 '19 at 20:19
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	79.1% Very good	Memory 94.2 1-Core 82.2 2-Core 193 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 350 8-Core 482 52% 416 Pts	64-Core 475 29% 475 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2080S (Super)-$466 261,508 User benchmarks, average bench 131% EVGA(3842 3081) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3875 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 436.48 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	112% Outstanding	Lighting 157 Reflection 180 Parallax 198 128% 178 fps	MRender 206 Gravity 166 Splatting 0.09 88% 124 fps
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 139%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 1TB-$135 602,853 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 705GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 878 500 497 490 487 477 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 81% Great: 133%
WD WD10EADX-00TDHB0 1TB 12,976 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 821GB free Firmware: 77.04D77 SusWrite @10s intervals: 88 90 91 90 92 90 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	51.4% Above average	Read 89 Write 81.7 Mixed 62.3 SusWrite 90.1 60% 80.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.9 155% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 57%
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 32GB-$7 9,864 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 20GB free, PID 5591 SusWrite @10s intervals: 32 22 15 15 15 13 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	27.4% Poor	Read 110 Write 33 Mixed 36.8 SusWrite 18.7 54% 49.5 MB/s	4K Read 6.5 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1.5 140% 3.3 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 27.4% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 6x8GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 6 of 8 slots used 48GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	87.2% Excellent	MC Read 34 MC Write 34.4 MC Mixed 32.4 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 12.6 SC Mixed 11.2 39% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 111%

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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	656x
Core i7-3930KIntel $195Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	363x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	234x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	87x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	86x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	43x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	40x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	28x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $654

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	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 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	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