Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 74%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 84%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 66%
Battle cruiser
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith 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 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics83.7% 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 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.
Memory32GB 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 VersionAlthough Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.
Run History
MotherboardAsus SABERTOOTH X79  (all builds)
Memory29.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 8.1
BIOS Date20130812
Uptime1.1 Days
Run DateApr 13 '17 at 04:17
Run Duration86 Seconds
Run User USA-User
Background CPU1%

 PC Performing above expectations (80th percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Core i7-4960X-$1,189
LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
Performing way above expectations (90th percentile)
85.7% Excellent
Memory 92.6
1-Core 99.1
2-Core 221
78% 138 Pts
4-Core 425
8-Core 686
68% 556 Pts
64-Core 832
52% 832 Pts
Poor: 70%
This bench: 85.7%
Great: 88%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560
CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65
Performing way above expectations (85th percentile)
83.7% Excellent
Lighting 105
Reflection 103
Parallax 89.7
85% 99 fps
MRender 96
Gravity 100
Splatting 98.3
80% 98.1 fps
Poor: 70%
This bench: 83.7%
Great: 87%
Drive BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25
244GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS1OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s
Performing as expected (49th percentile)
76.9% Very good
Read 136
Write 132
Mixed 145
104% 138 MB/s
4K Read 0.49
4K Write 1.73
4K Mixed 0.17
71% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 29%
This bench: 76.9%
Great: 103%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 4x8GB
4 of 8 slots used
32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz
Performing way above expectations (96th percentile)
98.9% Outstanding
MC Read 40.4
MC Write 38.3
MC Mixed 37.5
111% 38.7 GB/s
SC Read 16.6
SC Write 12.6
SC Mixed 14.2
41% 14.5 GB/s
Latency 63
64% 63 ns
Poor: 47%
This bench: 98.9%
Great: 98%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical SABERTOOTH X79 Builds (Compare 1,773 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 45%
Speed boat
Desktop
Desktop 79%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 39%
Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 76% - Very good Total price: $812
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