Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 70.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	80.8% 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	37.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Run History

2 years ago, 20 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120410
Uptime	14 Days
Run Date	Mar 28 '22 at 19:51
Run Duration	261 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (48^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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Memory 84.2 1-Core 96.9 2-Core 183 71% 121 Pts	4-Core 310 8-Core 490 49% 400 Pts	64-Core 484 30% 484 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3304) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 511.65 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.8% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 106 Parallax 97.9 82% 101 fps	MRender 94 Gravity 98.2 Splatting 95.1 78% 95.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 870 EVO 1TB-$104 129,044 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 804GB free Firmware: SVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 35 37 37 38 38 38 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 82% Great: 137%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 76 81 79 78 76 76 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	37.7% Below average	Read 144 Write 105 Mixed 125 SusWrite 77.8 25% 113 MB/s	4K Read 17.1 4K Write 33.3 4K Mixed 21.2 71% 23.9 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 94.9 DQ Mixed 103 81% 112 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 61%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 146 154 157 155 157 157 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Read 154 Write 135 Mixed 69.9 SusWrite 154 94% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 150% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 114%
Generic USB Flash Disk 32GB 181 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 1GB free, PID null Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 14.6 Write 21.3 Mixed 12 21% 16 MB/s	4K Read 3.1 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0 25% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 3% Great: 11%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR3 2000G 8x2GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 8 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	MC Read 31.3 MC Write 34.2 MC Mixed 29.9 91% 31.8 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 12.5 40% 14.2 GB/s	Latency 73.2 55% 73.2 ns
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 104%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	653x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	363x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	231x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	39x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $508

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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