Asus PRIME X299-A

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	71% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	313% 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME X299-A (all builds)
Memory	51.7 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	5120 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180803
Uptime	6.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 26 '20 at 18:28
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-9900X-$620 3,521 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA 2066 R4, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 75.2 1-Core 128 2-Core 260 84% 155 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 1011 89% 754 Pts	64-Core 1781 110% 1781 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 96%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% Asus(1043 86A5) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2160 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 441.20 Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	71% Very good	Lighting 87.1 Reflection 79.9 Parallax 63.5 71% 76.8 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 87.6 Splatting 76 71% 88.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$170 93,447 User benchmarks, average bench 322% 166GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1713 1878 1761 1756 1703 1592 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	313% Outstanding	Read 2,123 Write 1,954 Mixed 1,201 SusWrite 1,734 394% 1753 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 181 4K Mixed 66.9 251% 97.8 MB/s	DQ Read 1,065 DQ Write 964 DQ Mixed 996 752% 1,008 MB/s
Poor: 195% ↑ This bench: 313% Great: 393%
Intel Optane+2.7TBHDD 16 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 3TB free Firmware: 16.8 SusWrite @10s intervals: 134 136 134 134 128 139 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 38% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMW32GX4M2C3200C16 4x16GB 18,655 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	MC Read 29.4 MC Write 47.6 MC Mixed 29.6 102% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 6.7 SC Write 20.9 SC Mixed 9.5 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 90 44% 90 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 123%

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Workstation 93%

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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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Total price: $744

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 $184	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) $35	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