Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	74.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.8% 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.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 28 '21 at 10:22
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 87.5 1-Core 111 2-Core 219 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 726 68% 563 Pts	64-Core 1,100 68% 1,100 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Nvidia(10DE 1132) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 496.76 Performing below potential (57^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.7% Very good	Lighting 93.7 Reflection 109 Parallax 97.5 76% 99.9 fps	MRender 90.8 Gravity 92.8 Splatting 80.6 71% 88.1 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 342 337 347 343 345 346 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 350 Mixed 331 SusWrite 343 85% 381 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 74.5 4K Mixed 38.5 131% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 309 DQ Mixed 196 174% 261 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 103%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 178GB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 152 150 149 152 150 152 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	79.7% Very good	Read 127 Write 146 Mixed 71.3 SusWrite 151 91% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.8 155% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	62% Good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 19.8 64% 22.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 15.4 SC Mixed 16.9 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 70 57% 70 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 80%

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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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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,227x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	170x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $275Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	83x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	31x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $763

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16