Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	20.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	66.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 24 '15 at 10:52
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 85.4 1-Core 85.9 2-Core 191 70% 121 Pts	4-Core 342 8-Core 494 52% 418 Pts	64-Core 495 31% 495 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 570-$350 22,303 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Gainward(10B0 0401) 1.2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6143 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	20.7% Poor	Lighting 24.8 Reflection 38.1 Parallax 28 20% 30.3 fps	MRender 34.9 Gravity 20.3 Splatting 25.5 22% 26.9 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 20.7% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 233GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 65 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7995113	95.5% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 401 Mixed 414 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 29.7 4K Write 74.9 4K Mixed 39.5 135% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 232 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 89.1 97% 165 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 124%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 95GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11831 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2342 (B1) Unknown 94 94 193 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2280 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7705624374	66.1% Good	Read 492 Write 274 Mixed 362 83% 376 MB/s	4K Read 18.3 4K Write 47.2 4K Mixed 18.4 76% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 76.4 DQ Mixed 58.6 67% 118 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 76%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$60 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 598GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8375 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2294 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11927 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2266 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 2209 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 84 (C2) HDA temperature 118 96 34 (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	73.6% Very good	Read 138 Write 118 Mixed 116 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.38 110% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 76%
WD My Book 1TB 10,299 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 510GB free, PID 1100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	17.8% Very poor	Read 35.5 Write 35.8 Mixed 27.3 42% 32.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.29 64% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.8% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1600LLA Series 4x2GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 4 of 8 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	72.6% Very good	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 26.1 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 11.5 37% 12.9 GB/s	Latency 71.7 56% 71.7 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 73%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	658x
Core i7-3930KIntel $195Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	365x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	234x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	87x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	87x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	43x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	40x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	28x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $658

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $169	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369