Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	159% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jul 22 '17 at 09:31
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^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% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 113 2-Core 224 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 574 62% 490 Pts	64-Core 571 35% 571 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 336A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2527 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 147 Reflection 155 Parallax 131 120% 144 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 143 Splatting 112 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 102GB free Firmware: DXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17011 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2332 (B1) Unknown 97 97 104 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 45 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1130 (F1) Unknown 99 99 37602519453
Poor: 66% Great: 118%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 240GB 13,500 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	159% Outstanding	Read 939 Write 966 Mixed 909 210% 938 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 80.4 4K Mixed 37.9 162% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 254 DQ Mixed 122 139% 241 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 159% Great: 133%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$33 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 150 144 11500 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1758 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12822 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1637 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 106 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1651 (C2) HDA temperature 116 106 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	92.2% Outstanding	Read 159 Write 162 Mixed 153 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.93 4K Mixed 0.36 121% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 112%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$33 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 402GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 148 11400 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1756 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12823 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1637 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 108 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1647 (C2) HDA temperature 119 108 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	75.1% Very good	Read 138 Write 123 Mixed 119 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.78 4K Mixed 0.21 100% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-550.A00LF 4x4GB 24 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	MC Read 37.9 MC Write 40.8 MC Mixed 36.6 110% 38.4 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 15 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 55.6 72% 55.6 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 100%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	439x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	384x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	297x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	105x
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 $90Bench 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 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $515	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