Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	87.6% 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	105% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

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Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131015
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 31 '17 at 21:10
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	30%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77.9% Very good	Memory 95.5 1-Core 106 2-Core 190 77% 130 Pts	4-Core 327 8-Core 503 51% 415 Pts	64-Core 507 31% 507 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 113 Parallax 108 91% 111 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 100 81% 98.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 487GB 751 User benchmarks, average bench 125% 295GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 718 Write 563 Mixed 623 141% 635 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 60.5 4K Mixed 24.8 98% 36 MB/s	DQ Read 245 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 94.9 118% 206 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 214%
Corsair Force LX 256GB-$129 2,404 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 163GB free Firmware: N053 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 22 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 743 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 423 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1457 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 44 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1457 (A5) Unknown 100 100 16 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6541 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6164	48.1% Average	Read 314 Write 165 Mixed 231 52% 236 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 42.6 4K Mixed 15.6 76% 26.7 MB/s	DQ Read 14 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 11.9 25% 47.3 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 99%
Crucial BX100 1TB-$500 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 117GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 139 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 894 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 147 (A3) Unknown 100 100 52 (A4) Unknown 100 100 17728 (A5) Unknown 100 100 51 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 6 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 458 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2375 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 165971 (F2) Unknown 100 100 153340 (F5) Unknown 100 100 283648	57.5% Above average	Read 381 Write 165 Mixed 229 57% 258 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 42 4K Mixed 29.1 94% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 1.85 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 20.5 27% 45.4 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 108%
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 47GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 7995994 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -7524782693700 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2715 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 600 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7995994 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7995994 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7995994 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11462 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11513 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11513 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14425	51.5% Above average	Read 193 Write 177 Mixed 135 38% 168 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 62 4K Mixed 18 86% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 166 DQ Mixed 47.9 68% 126 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 66%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222492032 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4434 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20906801 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5850 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1982 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 62 17701273631 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 393 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29096 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 -140737488355297 (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 92586610002079 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21785821616 (F2) Unknown 100 253 37959588414	102% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 168 Mixed 160 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.39 98% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 114%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$90 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 114GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 63010376 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2478 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8610147 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3204 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1054 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 63 538247200 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3339 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 60129542176 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -50216757622061 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16100444230 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5694107975	89.2% Excellent	Read 156 Write 154 Mixed 114 105% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 5.27 4K Mixed 0.51 176% 2.1 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 3,839 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 37.8 MC Write 42.7 MC Mixed 39.9 115% 40.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 14.5 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 87%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	544x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	389x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	98x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
MX500 1TBCrucial $74Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	36x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	34x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	20x

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Total price: $881

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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