Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	54.2% 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	87.8% 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	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150515
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 24 '17 at 00:48
Run Duration	411 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 95 1-Core 124 2-Core 241 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 491 8-Core 759 77% 625 Pts	64-Core 974 60% 974 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.1% 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: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	54.2% Above average	Lighting 66.6 Reflection 60 Parallax 81 54% 69.2 fps	MRender 60 Gravity 54.5 Splatting 78.2 54% 64.2 fps
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 52%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Marvell Raid VD 1.5TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 1.5TB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	118% Outstanding	Read 773 Write 769 Mixed 770 172% 771 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 54 4K Mixed 22.2 88% 32.2 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 367 DQ Mixed 104 134% 234 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 125%
Marvell Raid VD 1.5TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 1.5TB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	113% Outstanding	Read 769 Write 759 Mixed 754 170% 761 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 55.7 4K Mixed 23.4 91% 33.3 MB/s	DQ Read 21.4 DQ Write 366 DQ Mixed 99.1 105% 162 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 125%
SSD 2TB 83 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 893GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM32.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^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 5708 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 57 (10) Unknown 100 100 330 (A1) Unknown 100 100 2372 (A3) Unknown 100 100 15 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196623 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 0 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 983043 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (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 5645 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6941 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2018240 (F9) Unknown 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0	87.8% Excellent	Read 525 Write 458 Mixed 475 108% 486 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 92.9 4K Mixed 13.1 109% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 27 DQ Write 325 DQ Mixed 11.3 58% 121 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 129%
EESSD 800GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 744GB 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 3352 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 112 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 521 (A3) Unknown 100 100 55 (A4) Unknown 100 100 11305 (A5) Unknown 100 100 23 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 5 (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 19 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43 (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 77860 (F2) Unknown 100 100 261885 (F5) Unknown 100 100 180880	86.5% Excellent	Read 518 Write 395 Mixed 441 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 75.7 4K Mixed 30.7 113% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 22.7 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 70.2 79% 125 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 100%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$70 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 181 5466 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 52 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5679 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 50 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10671 (C2) HDA temperature 110 91 40 (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	34.7% Below average	Read 63.4 Write 57.1 Mixed 57.3 45% 59.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.18 74% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 34.7% Great: 63%
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 below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9380 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 54 (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 5718 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 54 (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 68 55 655360032 (C2) HDA temperature 68 54 672137248 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3347 (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	35.6% Below average	Read 67 Write 56.9 Mixed 59.1 46% 61 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.21 79% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 58%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9360 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 48 (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 5716 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 48 (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 67 54 621936673 (C2) HDA temperature 66 53 638713890 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 263820 (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	61.3% Good	Read 111 Write 103 Mixed 118 84% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.36 97% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 58%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 72 72 9190 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 48 (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 5732 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 48 (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 67 58 588382241 (C2) HDA temperature 66 57 605159458 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 537140 (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	59.8% Above average	Read 100 Write 108 Mixed 111 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.37 95% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 58%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 777GB free Firmware: KC48 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 117 99 2640 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 74 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12596738 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7503 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 72 (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 65 56 639041571 (C2) HDA temperature 35 44 94489280547 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 21 2640 (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 91353954393423 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3478558583 (F2) Unknown 100 253 760080603	90.9% Outstanding	Read 118 Write 199 Mixed 92.2 101% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.78 138% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 88%
Seagate ST500DM005 HD502HJ 500GB 10,272 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 777GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^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 5399 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1043 (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 14039 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 670 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 487 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 55 193274445857 (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 1059	83.5% Excellent	Read 169 Write 122 Mixed 98.8 97% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 3.23 4K Mixed 0.8 176% 1.56 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 77%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 661GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 2544 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 9142 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 58 57 369420041962 (09) Power-on hours count 15 15 74789 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 377 (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 58 47 773390378 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 217 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9503 (C2) HDA temperature 42 53 85899345962 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 3 2544 (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 11557757036136 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3838856962 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1806705408	58.6% Above average	Read 102 Write 103 Mixed 78 70% 94.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.65 120% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 656GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 3816 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7703 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 60259341244 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 51898 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 270 (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 60 46 9312862248 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 154 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7761 (C2) HDA temperature 40 54 -140737488355288 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 5 3816 (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 25271587600522 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1374756092 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1011882954	58.3% Above average	Read 101 Write 103 Mixed 89 73% 97.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.37 74% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 69%
EDGE C3 Duo 64GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 13GB free, PID 012f Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	31% Below average	Read 135 Write 25.5 Mixed 88 90% 82.7 MB/s	4K Read 3.97 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 1.11 107% 2.23 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 31% Great: 31%

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 @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.2% Very good	MC Read 32.9 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 22.7 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 20.9 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 57.2 70% 57.2 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 106%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,232x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16