Asus P9X79

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	110% 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	16GB 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 Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '17 at 18:51
Run Duration	239 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 97.4 1-Core 109 2-Core 220 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 707 70% 572 Pts	64-Core 841 52% 841 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-Ti-$410 30,815 User benchmarks, average bench 53% Gigabyte(1458 3628) 3GB CLim: 1346 MHz, MLim: 1750 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 378.78 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 47% Great: 59%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 524GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3380 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1353 (B1) Unknown 99 99 47 (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 71 55 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 98 (F1) Unknown 99 99 41389486294	110% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 474 Mixed 510 112% 502 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 44.1 161% 59.9 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 105 118% 201 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 380GB free Firmware: 6B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8869 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1232 (B1) Unknown 98 98 44 (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 73 52 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 338 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16392409497	68.1% Good	Read 244 Write 258 Mixed 265 57% 256 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 67.6 4K Mixed 26.4 114% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 21.9 61% 131 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 403GB free Firmware: BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6611 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3088 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 77 52 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1212 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17564615201	74.8% Very good	Read 508 Write 113 Mixed 98.5 51% 240 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 73 4K Mixed 26.1 129% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 243 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 101 105% 174 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 95867216 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3323 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 4323416986 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7035 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2346 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 71 62 521928733 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 376 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 52 52 96861 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 60129542173 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 97396973375273 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23293900297 (F2) Unknown 100 253 27118159655	64.8% Good	Read 145 Write 80.8 Mixed 130 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.28 80% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 86176232 (03) Spinup time 98 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4050 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19174272 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7417 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2523 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 521928734 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 461 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 41 41 118006 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 51539607582 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 25653839662231 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19989142556 (F2) Unknown 100 253 29582204442	73.5% Very good	Read 130 Write 127 Mixed 119 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.32 97% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 114%
Lexar USB Flash Drive 32GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 30GB free Firmware: 1100 Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	24.2% Poor	Read 43.3 Write 39.6 Mixed 41.5 31% 41.5 MB/s	4K Read 4.51 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.84 301% 2.14 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 24.2% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	MC Read 31.4 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 25.9 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 14.1 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 48.8 82% 48.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 88%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	654x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	363x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	231x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	85x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x
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	39x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $508

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16