Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	48% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	90.8% 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.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150515
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Aug 15 '17 at 05:17
Run Duration	376 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$150 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 112 2-Core 224 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 728 72% 587 Pts	64-Core 881 54% 881 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390-$325 82,117 User benchmarks, average bench 50% PowerColor(148C 2358) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1010 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	48% Average	Lighting 55.4 Reflection 54.7 Parallax 55.2 45% 55.1 fps	MRender 60.3 Gravity 54.3 Splatting 76.5 54% 63.7 fps
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 52%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Marvell Raid VD 1.5TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 2.5TB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	125% Outstanding	Read 776 Write 781 Mixed 762 173% 773 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 74.7 4K Mixed 25.1 109% 41.5 MB/s	DQ Read 232 DQ Write 359 DQ Mixed 104 132% 232 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 125%
Marvell Raid VD 1.5TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 2.5TB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	111% Outstanding	Read 763 Write 784 Mixed 764 172% 770 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 74.8 4K Mixed 20 103% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 25.4 DQ Write 77.8 DQ Mixed 19.7 24% 41 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 125%
SSD 2TB 83 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 977GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM32.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th 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 3333 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 41 (10) Unknown 100 100 330 (A1) Unknown 100 100 2372 (A3) Unknown 100 100 8 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 131080 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 0 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 524290 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 27 (C2) HDA temperature 98 98 128849018910 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3382 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4739 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1205504 (F9) Unknown 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0	90.8% Outstanding	Read 527 Write 456 Mixed 486 109% 490 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 97.2 4K Mixed 14.4 119% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 327 DQ Mixed 55.4 80% 138 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 129%
EESSD 800GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 680GB free Firmware: O1026A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (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 3299 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 96 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 521 (A3) Unknown 100 100 55 (A4) Unknown 100 100 9553 (A5) Unknown 100 100 22 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 4 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (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 12 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1 (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 65949 (F2) Unknown 100 100 254441 (F5) Unknown 100 100 152848	99.9% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 396 Mixed 441 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 34.8 140% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 69.2 108% 204 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 100%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$70 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 184 5066 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 37 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3318 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 35 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5973 (C2) HDA temperature 105 91 45 (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	51.9% Above average	Read 105 Write 75.6 Mixed 73.8 64% 84.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.2 82% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 63%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 2TB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7920 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 39 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3341 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 39 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 55 756285477 (C2) HDA temperature 61 54 773062695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3631 (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 253 253 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	48.1% Average	Read 90.5 Write 76.9 Mixed 66.1 58% 77.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.2 79% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 58%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1.5TB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7960 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 33 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3338 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 33 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 54 773193766 (C2) HDA temperature 59 53 789970985 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 330961 (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 253 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	51.2% Above average	Read 86.3 Write 92.2 Mixed 89.1 67% 89.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.44 100% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 58%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1.5TB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 77 77 7830 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 33 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 33 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 58 689242149 (C2) HDA temperature 62 57 689242150 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4827 (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 253 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	52.9% Above average	Read 99.6 Write 84.8 Mixed 94.9 70% 93.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.42 97% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 58%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 4192 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7688 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 60255938752 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 49520 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 255 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 8590065670 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 54 46 9430564910 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 146 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7746 (C2) HDA temperature 46 54 -140737488355282 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 18 5 4192 (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 73456825691968 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3298437415 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1649057441	65.6% Good	Read 116 Write 113 Mixed 113 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.45 88% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$78 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 870GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 14767600 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 9127 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 58 57 369419917727 (09) Power-on hours count 18 18 72411 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 362 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 77310656537 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 51 47 891093041 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 209 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9488 (C2) HDA temperature 49 53 85899345969 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 12 3 14767600 (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 -129944235500259 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1248779889 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1668230302	74.6% Very good	Read 129 Write 131 Mixed 122 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.47 91% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 75%
Seagate ST500DM005 HD502HJ 500GB 10,272 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 138GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 83 82 5379 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1028 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11661 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 654 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 487 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 55 193274445859 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 57 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1043	61.1% Good	Read 101 Write 112 Mixed 97.8 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.37 115% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 77%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 107GB free Firmware: KC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 2200 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 58 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10953092 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5125 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 56 (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 64 56 622592036 (C2) HDA temperature 36 44 94489280548 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 21 2200 (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 -21290152881147 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2419470570 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1190958782	59.1% Above average	Read 106 Write 99.7 Mixed 87.6 73% 97.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.41 91% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown MR[A/B]4U320LLLM8G 2x8GB 165 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65% Good	MC Read 29.4 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 19.4 66% 23 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 106%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,242x
Core i7-5930KIntel $150Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	144x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	175x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $86Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	49x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Total price: $748

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