Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	14.6% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	164% 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

23 months ago, 23 months ago, 23 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190710
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	May 07 '22 at 13:18
Run Duration	255 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	68.8% Good	Memory 77.9 1-Core 91.4 2-Core 178 67% 116 Pts	4-Core 322 8-Core 544 53% 433 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 750-$120 66,662 User benchmarks, average bench 15% Gainward(10B0 1381) 2GB CLim: 1293 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 457.30 Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	14.6% Very poor	Lighting 17.7 Reflection 16.8 Parallax 16.6 14% 17 fps	MRender 22.3 Gravity 18.4 Splatting 15.1 15% 18.6 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 14.6% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SA2000M8500G 500GB 87,883 User benchmarks, average bench 197% 289GB free (System drive) Firmware: S5Z42105 SusWrite @10s intervals: 618 537 539 541 547 547 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	164% Outstanding	Read 1,365 Write 1,061 Mixed 531 SusWrite 555 195% 878 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 80.5 4K Mixed 56.6 178% 59.6 MB/s	DQ Read 542 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 343 283% 410 MB/s
Poor: 118% ↑ This bench: 164% Great: 277%
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 430GB free Firmware: MS1OA750 SusWrite @10s intervals: 173 177 185 185 185 185 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 186 Mixed 35.7 SusWrite 181 107% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.6 137% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M393A1G40DB0-CPB 2x8GB 1,030 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB RIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	60.2% Good	MC Read 27 MC Write 20 MC Mixed 20 64% 22.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 14.7 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 84.6 47% 84.6 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 67%

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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	1,230x
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	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $274Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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	32x
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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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