Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 65.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	81.4% 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	39.1% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	43.5 GB free of 48 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140507
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 20:51
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$195 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	65.5% Good	Memory 78.6 1-Core 82.4 2-Core 162 63% 108 Pts	4-Core 283 8-Core 450 45% 367 Pts	64-Core 612 38% 612 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.4% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 110 Parallax 99.1 84% 104 fps	MRender 93.8 Gravity 97.1 Splatting 88.9 76% 93.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Marvell Raid VD 0 960GB 58 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 355GB free (System drive) Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	39.1% Below average	Read 381 Write 144 Mixed 212 54% 246 MB/s	4K Read 16 4K Write 12.6 4K Mixed 8.63 42% 12.4 MB/s	DQ Read 18.3 DQ Write 98 DQ Mixed 7.55 21% 41.3 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 114%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 128GB free Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 26 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10631 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3273 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 141 (AE) Unknown 100 100 151 (B5) Unknown 100 100 23914496659115 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 13399 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 86 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 42433 (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 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	59% Above average	Read 489 Write 254 Mixed 329 79% 357 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 5.66 68% 27.7 MB/s	DQ Read 116 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 5.87 34% 77.7 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 74%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 8TB 685 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 2.5TB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	117% Outstanding	Read 265 Write 137 Mixed 128 131% 177 MB/s	4K Read 8.7 4K Write 6.29 4K Mixed 0.94 584% 5.31 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 173%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 3TB 2,213 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2TB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	40.5% Average	Read 66.4 Write 74.5 Mixed 65 52% 68.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.4 96% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 105%
Seagate Expansion Desk 8TB 790 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2TB free, PID 3322 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	69% Good	Read 149 Write 114 Mixed 77.3 136% 114 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 7.24 4K Mixed 0.68 273% 3.01 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-19200C11-4GBZH F3-2400C10-8GTX F3-19200C11-4GBZH F3-2400C10-8GTX F3-19200C11-4GBZH F3-2400C10-8GTX F3-19200C11-4GBZH F3-2400C10-8GTX 48GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	76.8% Very good	MC Read 30.7 MC Write 30.9 MC Mixed 28.6 86% 30.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 11.3 SC Mixed 10.7 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 83.3 48% 83.3 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 72%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 53%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $195Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	544x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	391x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	99x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $135Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	39x
MX500 1TBCrucial $88Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	36x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	34x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	20x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16