Asus Z9PE-D8 WS

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 67.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	84.1% 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	68% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

System	Asus Z9PE-D8 WS (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK Z9PE-D8 WS
Memory	27.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	4096 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150107
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '17 at 21:23
Run Duration	262 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
1st CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 1,377 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket-R 2011, 2 CPU, 20 cores, 40 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	67.5% Good	Memory 72.9 1-Core 84.6 2-Core 169 63% 109 Pts	4-Core 334 8-Core 686 60% 510 Pts	64-Core 2,146 133% 2,146 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 17C8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 111 Parallax 112 87% 110 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 100 Splatting 94.8 79% 96.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Marvell Raid VD 0 4TB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 117% 3TB free Firmware: MV.R Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	25.7% Poor	Read 73.5 Write 328 Mixed 109 39% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 11.6 4K Mixed 0.8 9% 4.45 MB/s	DQ Read 3.25 DQ Write 10.2 DQ Mixed 2.49 3% 5.33 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 25.7% Great: 69%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$194 3,881 User benchmarks, average bench 158% 433GB free Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	134% Outstanding	Read 1,884 Write 310 Mixed 519 194% 904 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 59.5 4K Mixed 31.1 104% 37.4 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 89.1 DQ Mixed 68.6 78% 139 MB/s
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 211%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18344 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3383 (B1) Unknown 85 85 513 (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 74 52 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 251 (F1) Unknown 99 99 45895400159	68% Good	Read 490 Write 301 Mixed 377 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 48.2 4K Mixed 19.6 77% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 70.9 DQ Mixed 53.7 64% 116 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 86%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 3TB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 229 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8525 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3707 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17633 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3253 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 193 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3513 (C2) HDA temperature 126 104 26 (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
Poor: 44% Great: 85%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 3TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8941 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6840 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17260 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3254 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 161 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6678 (C2) HDA temperature 119 100 33 (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
Poor: 44% Great: 85%
WD WD20EURS-63S48Y0 2TB 12,928 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 173 6000 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6682 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15569 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2824 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 207 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6474 (C2) HDA temperature 121 105 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	76.5% Very good	Read 129 Write 137 Mixed 123 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.57 4K Mixed 0.25 103% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 77%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$55 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 781GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 146 142 9691 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10633 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24290 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4922 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 288 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 144 144 168746 (C2) HDA temperature 118 103 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	47% Average	Read 92 Write 71.6 Mixed 85.1 63% 82.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.26 88% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT351R7CFR8C-P 8x4GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	MC Read 42.1 MC Write 35.7 MC Mixed 35.3 108% 37.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 4.6 SC Mixed 5.7 20% 6.93 GB/s	Latency 94.9 42% 94.9 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 104%

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Gaming 68%

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Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation 89%

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System: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS

CPU
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v21stBench 64%, 772 samples	20x
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2690 01stBench 68%, 2,388 samples	16x
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 01stBench 65%, 4,306 samples	15x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	14x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	14x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	10x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	12x
840 Pro 256GBSamsung $175Bench 95%, 73,119 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x

RAM
M393B1G73QH0-YK 8x8GBSamsungBench 81%, 8 samples	7x
HMT31GR7EFR4C-R 7x8GBHynixBench 91%, 9 samples	7x
9905403-582.A00 8x8GBKingstonBench 85%, 7 samples	6x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $369

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	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 $44	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