Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	121% 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	33.1% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (47%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 months ago, 7 months ago, 7 months ago, 7 months ago, 7 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140507
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 24 '23 at 19:08
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	47%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K 4,060 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	74.1% Very good	Memory 83.9 1-Core 89.9 2-Core 188 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 348 8-Core 569 56% 458 Pts	64-Core 721 45% 721 Pts
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 4060-$293 48,534 User benchmarks, average bench 122% Asus(1043 8903) CLim: 3105 MHz, MLim: 4250 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 536.40 Performing below potential (44^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	121% Outstanding	Lighting 161 Reflection 115 Parallax 150 131% 142 fps	MRender 210 Gravity 128 Splatting 105 116% 148 fps
Poor: 115% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 127%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD SusWrite @10s intervals: 84 83 60 58 56 53 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	33.1% Below average	Read 349 Write 157 Mixed 79.2 SusWrite 65.9 36% 163 MB/s	4K Read 11.3 4K Write 25.2 4K Mixed 3.3 35% 13.3 MB/s	DQ Read 134 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 111 86% 118 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 82%
Seagate ST8000NE0004-1ZF11G 8TB 260 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 8.5TB free Firmware: EN01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 209 208 212 212 212 213 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	Read 205 Write 188 Mixed 102 SusWrite 211 129% 176 MB/s	4K Read 2.3 4K Write 7.1 4K Mixed 1.1 350% 3.5 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 125%
Seagate ST8000NE0004-1ZF11G 8TB 260 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 8.5TB free Firmware: EN01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 203 203 207 205 206 204 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	Read 210 Write 199 Mixed 104 SusWrite 205 131% 180 MB/s	4K Read 2.4 4K Write 6.3 4K Mixed 1 328% 3.23 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 125%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-197.A00LF 4x4GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 42.4 MC Write 40.7 MC Mixed 36.9 114% 40 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 13.4 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 65%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

SkillBench Score 9: 0P 0R 2G 3B (High Scores)

Measures user input accuracy relative to the given hardware

Score	Hit Rate	Shots	EFps	0.1% Low	Refresh Rate	Screen	Resolution	Monitor
9%	19%	27	216	60	60	23.5"	1920 1017	SAM0B87 S24D391

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 53%

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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 $140Bench 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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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $942

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $122	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) $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