Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	130% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	29.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 14 '17 at 00:06
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	CHL-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$504 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 120 2-Core 241 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 476 8-Core 827 79% 652 Pts	64-Core 1,241 77% 1,241 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 150 Parallax 129 113% 139 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 138 Splatting 113 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$100 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 889GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 937 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 194 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1769492 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 37 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 856 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 21 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 65 279173791775 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 21474836485 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 299 (EA) Unknown 100 100 417 (F1) Unknown 253 253 395 (F2) Unknown 253 253 646 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.1% Very good	Read 499 Write 344 Mixed 325 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 49.5 4K Mixed 17.4 96% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 31.2 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 32.7 42% 71.3 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 107%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 325GB free (System drive) Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Read 1,547 Write 514 Mixed 527 187% 863 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 49.6 4K Mixed 18.2 100% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 45.2 67% 128 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 155%
Zotac Sonix NVMe PCIe 480GB-$797 250 User benchmarks, average bench 184% 251GB free Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	239% Outstanding	Read 2,493 Write 1,384 Mixed 1,670 408% 1,849 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 71.3 4K Mixed 41.4 142% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 255 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 119 123% 200 MB/s
Poor: 112% ↑ This bench: 239% Great: 244%
HyperX Fury 240GB-$65 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 222GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8847060 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 126899103729788 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 476 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 63 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 37 42 51542360101 (C2) HDA temperature 37 42 51542360101 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8847060 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8847060 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8847060 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7816 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6916 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6916 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3475 (F4) Unknown 98 98 5767243	66.4% Good	Read 483 Write 194 Mixed 268 69% 315 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 67.8 4K Mixed 18 93% 36 MB/s	DQ Read 149 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 51.3 74% 135 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 84%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 68GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4423 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 863 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21481914446 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 32 (A8) Unknown 100 100 12 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 147 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 48 206159282218 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 158916411432 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 447 (EA) Unknown 100 100 639 (F1) Unknown 253 253 533 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1103 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	75.2% Very good	Read 467 Write 331 Mixed 323 83% 374 MB/s	4K Read 29.7 4K Write 49.3 4K Mixed 18.8 95% 32.6 MB/s	DQ Read 216 DQ Write 152 DQ Mixed 48.3 73% 139 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 575GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 11640386 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7952 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17872050 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7482 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2574 (B7) Unknown 1 1 257 (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 67 60 555679777 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 51539607585 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 16 11640386 (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 -71116068472959 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3431626731 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2069105417	65.9% Good	Read 118 Write 112 Mixed 109 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.52 120% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 4,021 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	89% Excellent	MC Read 42.3 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 32.1 92% 32.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 24.2 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 50.7 79% 50.7 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 136%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,248x
Core i7-5930KIntel $143Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $504Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	144x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	175x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $266Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	49x

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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Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	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