Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 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 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 69.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	78.6% 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	40.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB 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.

Very high background CPU (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	39.4 GB free of 48 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 09 '17 at 21:44
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	57%

PC Performing below expectations (32^nd 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, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Memory 82.5 1-Core 90.6 2-Core 177 68% 117 Pts	4-Core 310 8-Core 505 50% 408 Pts	64-Core 635 39% 635 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.6% Very good	Lighting 99.4 Reflection 104 Parallax 92.4 81% 98.7 fps	MRender 89.9 Gravity 93.6 Splatting 88.4 74% 90.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 119GB free (System drive) Firmware: 501ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (0^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 (01) Raw read error rate 110 110 28894410 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 58514634460703 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3193 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 249 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 41 91 55840538665 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 28894410 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 28894410 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 28894410 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 23011 (EA) Unknown 0 0 25244 (F1) Unknown 0 0 25244 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10612	40.7% Average	Read 225 Write 144 Mixed 173 40% 181 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 38.4 4K Mixed 11.4 68% 24 MB/s	DQ Read 22.1 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 13.6 26% 47.9 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 94%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$182 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 3TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Read 119 Write 148 Mixed 110 94% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.07 4K Write 0.13 4K Mixed 0.04 10% 0.08 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 98%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 171 8041 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4512 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5818 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2586 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 750 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14511 (C2) HDA temperature 111 109 41 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	58.5% Above average	Read 96.9 Write 107 Mixed 76.5 70% 93.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 0.51 4K Mixed 0.14 31% 0.26 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 75912264 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6267 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11737871 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8273 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2783 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 3932221 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 49 103836418093 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 775 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28219 (C2) HDA temperature 45 51 -140737488355283 (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 -77966541322858 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9484695326 (F2) Unknown 100 253 72042255467	74.8% Very good	Read 145 Write 116 Mixed 122 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.14 49% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$89 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 743GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 217364455 (03) Spinup time 96 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6090 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 151713311 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 46718 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3402 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 59 867604955465 (BD) vendor-specific 71 71 29 (BE) vendor-specific 54 50 774111278 (C2) HDA temperature 46 50 51539607598 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 21 217364455 (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 7726646209915 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1666569417 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3843296379	56.2% Above average	Read 102 Write 93.8 Mixed 88.8 71% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.39 91% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C10 6x8GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 6 of 8 slots used 48GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Relative performance (0^th percentile)	54.8% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 19.4 57% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.6 SC Write 12 SC Mixed 10.7 34% 11.8 GB/s	Latency 76.1 53% 76.1 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 88%

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Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	440x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	106x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	105x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	101x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	30x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $808

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16