Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.3% 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	51.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 20 '17 at 17:07
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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-$150 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 89.1 1-Core 109 2-Core 219 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 650 64% 525 Pts	64-Core 857 53% 857 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1755 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Lighting 117 Reflection 118 Parallax 107 95% 114 fps	MRender 95.3 Gravity 101 Splatting 90.5 78% 95.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$85 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 250GB free Firmware: M0C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^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 22 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 946 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 27 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 53 201864577052 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 5170395015 (F7) Unknown 100 100 161599709 (F8) Unknown 100 100 23187679 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3575 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	67.4% Good	Read 485 Write 322 Mixed 337 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 17.8 4K Mixed 15.9 70% 20.2 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 11.1 DQ Mixed 15.4 48% 114 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 104%
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 210GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1521 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 971 (A5) Unknown 100 100 10748026 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 64 (A8) Unknown 100 100 4 (A9) Unknown 100 100 989 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 50 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 66 283469021211 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 146029805602 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1960 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2513 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2331 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1279 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	65.8% Good	Read 494 Write 346 Mixed 258 81% 366 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 16.7 4K Mixed 10.4 69% 19.3 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 18.4 DQ Mixed 11.7 35% 80.8 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 107%
SanDisk Extreme 480GB-$300 1,286 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 109 24144087 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 44109314133353 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1914 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 116 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 68722360347 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 24144087 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 24144087 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 24144087 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7892 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10550 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10550 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14075	51.8% Above average	Read 510 Write 210 Mixed 265 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 28.7 4K Write 11.5 4K Mixed 6.97 58% 15.7 MB/s	DQ Read 75.1 DQ Write 14.4 DQ Mixed 15.6 19% 35 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 66%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145873208 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1395 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1392847 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1103 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 594 (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 71 58 488112157 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1499 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 73014444061 (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 69389491636007 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4790166765 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10989744871	73.5% Very good	Read 104 Write 151 Mixed 131 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 5.16 4K Mixed 0.72 208% 2.22 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 734 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 38.5 MC Write 41.7 MC Mixed 38.2 113% 39.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 20.7 52% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 132%

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Gaming 45%

Yacht

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,242x
Core i7-5930KIntel $150Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 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 $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $86Bench 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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $744

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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