Asus X99-A II

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 67.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	80.5% 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	58% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A II (all builds)
Memory	26.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190710
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 03 '20 at 13:19
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 1,838 User benchmarks, average bench 69% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 2.35 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	67.8% Good	Memory 78.9 1-Core 66.5 2-Core 135 57% 93.4 Pts	4-Core 306 8-Core 554 52% 430 Pts	64-Core 805 50% 805 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% Asus(1043 86A3) CLim: 2115 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.55 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 93 Parallax 94.1 84% 96.8 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 89.5 Splatting 79.8 74% 91.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sabrent Rocket Q 500GB 1,201 User benchmarks, average bench 139% 152GB free (System drive) Firmware: RKT30Q.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 241 199 102 122 82 128 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	58% Above average	Read 964 Write 942 Mixed 604 SusWrite 146 148% 664 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 59.8 4K Mixed 0.4 33% 20.2 MB/s	DQ Read 1.5 DQ Write 74.3 DQ Mixed 211 112% 95.5 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 214%
WDC WDS240G2G0B-00EPW0 240GB 85,321 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 223GB free Firmware: 0000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 227 176 121 160 166 167 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	53.2% Above average	Read 459 Write 335 Mixed 292 SusWrite 170 70% 314 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 29 4K Mixed 17.1 64% 21.3 MB/s	DQ Read 119 DQ Write 97.8 DQ Mixed 44.6 51% 87.1 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 55%
Sandisk S128G 126GB 21,984 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 117GB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 226 243 258 291 292 284 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	49.7% Average	Read 431 Write 331 Mixed 80.6 SusWrite 266 62% 277 MB/s	4K Read 16.9 4K Write 16.5 4K Mixed 12 50% 15.1 MB/s	DQ Read 32.6 DQ Write 19.4 DQ Mixed 19.2 16% 23.7 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 56%
Patriot Blast 120GB 4,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 104GB free Firmware: 11.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 59 49 50 60 52 53 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	Read 285 Write 101 Mixed 156 SusWrite 53.9 33% 149 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 47.5 4K Mixed 28.2 100% 33.6 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 80.3 DQ Mixed 137 113% 168 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 95%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 238GB free Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 509 512 499 602 602 598 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Read 680 Write 570 Mixed 499 SusWrite 554 129% 576 MB/s	4K Read 45 4K Write 59 4K Mixed 45.8 158% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 696 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 328 274% 410 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 243%
USB DISK 3.0 126GB 60 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 114GB free, PID 9917 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 20 24 24 21 24 21 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	11.3% Very poor	Read 25.7 Write 6.7 Mixed 0.2 SusWrite 22.5 16% 13.8 MB/s	4K Read 8.7 4K Write 0.2 4K Mixed 0.3 49% 3.07 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 11.3% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2666 C13 2x16GB 2,976 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 1866 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.9% Good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 21.4 MC Mixed 21 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 17.3 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 82.6 48% 82.6 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 101%

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

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 77%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A II - $294

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	694x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	194x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	189x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	213x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	180x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	63x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	40x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	29x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	23x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	19x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $906

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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