Asrock X79 Extreme9

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	52.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock X79 Extreme9 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1776 x 1000 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140214
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 24 '20 at 23:44
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	33%

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 Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	71.8% Very good	Memory 88.2 1-Core 92.6 2-Core 165 69% 115 Pts	4-Core 300 8-Core 477 48% 388 Pts	64-Core 483 30% 483 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5970 (Crossfire Disabled) 1,620 User benchmarks, average bench 17% AMD(1002 2042) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	14.9% Very poor	Lighting 21.4 Reflection 16.3 Parallax 20.1 17% 19.3 fps	MRender 10.8 Gravity 17.1 Splatting 9.2 10% 12.4 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 14.9% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0309 SusWrite @10s intervals: 162 165 174 165 166 166 MB/s Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	52.1% Above average	Read 251 Write 172 Mixed 193 SusWrite 166 44% 196 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 60 4K Mixed 17.7 89% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 132 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 56.9 61% 101 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 72%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 28GB free Firmware: 070H SusWrite @10s intervals: 215 207 206 207 221 221 MB/s Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	53.3% Above average	Read 254 Write 221 Mixed 204 SusWrite 213 50% 223 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 64.5 4K Mixed 15.3 85% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 123 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 23.3 43% 86.3 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 2,734 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 38.5 MC Mixed 34.2 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 13.2 40% 14.2 GB/s	Latency 69.3 58% 69.3 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 97%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical X79 Extreme9 Builds (Compare 119 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 74%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 60%

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Motherboard: Asrock X79 Extreme9 - $1,200

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	32x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	32x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	10x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	7x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	8x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $125Bench 102%, 141,929 samples	7x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	4x

RAM
F3 DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 71%, 602 samples	5x
CMX4GX3M1A160 Kingston KHX1600C10D3/ CMX8GX3M2A160 Kingston KHX1600C10D3L 24GBCorsairBench 45%, 9 samples	5x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBG.SKILLBench 85%, 84 samples	4x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,471

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