Asus P9X79

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 81%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 76%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 71%
Battleship
PC StatusOverall 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.
ProcessorWith 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 77.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics109% 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.
Boot DriveThe boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory16GB 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 VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
MotherboardAsus P9X79  (all builds)
Memory13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20120803
Uptime0 Days
Run DateNov 11 '19 at 22:09
Run Duration108 Seconds
Run User USA-User
Background CPU4%
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 PC Performing as expected (54th percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280
LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads
Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg)
Performing above expectations (75th percentile)
77.9% Very good
Memory 88.3
1-Core 94.8
2-Core 190
72% 124 Pts
4-Core 364
8-Core 620
60% 492 Pts
64-Core 729
45% 729 Pts
Poor: 63%
This bench: 77.9%
Great: 85%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.86
Performing way above expectations (86th percentile)
109% Outstanding
Lighting 136
Reflection 128
Parallax 133
111% 132 fps
MRender 188
Gravity 130
Splatting 105
111% 141 fps
Poor: 93%
This bench: 109%
Great: 112%
Drive BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
WD Re 1TB (2013)-$65
876GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 01.01V03
SusWrite @10s intervals: 75 64 78 109 112 107 MB/s
Performing as expected (40th percentile)
58.2% Above average
Read 112
Write 115
Mixed 96.5
SusWrite 90.8
77% 103 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 2.3
4K Mixed 1
195% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 37%
This bench: 58.2%
Great: 77%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Kingston KHX2400C11D3/4GX 9905403-198.A00LF KHX2400C11D3/4GX 9905403-198.A00LF 16GB
1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz
4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB
Performing below potential (17th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP
49% Average
MC Read 18.8
MC Write 16.3
MC Mixed 16.1
49% 17.1 GB/s
SC Read 14.4
SC Write 12.8
SC Mixed 12.1
37% 13.1 GB/s
Latency 69.3
58% 69.3 ns
Poor: 49%
This bench: 49%
Great: 53%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

Typical P9X79 Builds (Compare 1,708 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 58%
Gunboat
Desktop
Desktop 77%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 47%
Yacht

Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 101% - Outstanding Total price: $508
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