Asus PRIME X299-A

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	103% 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	60.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	80GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 80GB 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.

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Motherboard	Asus PRIME X299-A (all builds)
Memory	72.2 GB free of 80 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170906
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '18 at 23:06
Run Duration	542 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7900X-$420 19,432 User benchmarks, average bench 82% LGA 2066 R4, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 76.5 1-Core 123 2-Core 226 79% 142 Pts	4-Core 503 8-Core 896 84% 699 Pts	64-Core 1,734 107% 1,734 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% PNY(196E 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 146 Parallax 127 108% 135 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 130 Splatting 108 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial_CT2050MX300SSD1 2TB 2,359 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 796GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR060 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^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 2552 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 144 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 64 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 61 167504642072 (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 19846866564 (F7) Unknown 100 100 622202233 (F8) Unknown 100 100 313794096 (B4) Unknown 0 0 9158 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	60.9% Good	Read 347 Write 332 Mixed 328 75% 336 MB/s	4K Read 19.4 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 14.1 78% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 19.7 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 17.7 34% 62.7 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 99%
Toshiba HDWF180 8TB 2,355 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 6.5TB free Firmware: GX0B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10758 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 38 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2133 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 38 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2893 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 120259674135 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 98 98 1126 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 547 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	121% Outstanding	Read 212 Write 209 Mixed 195 154% 205 MB/s	4K Read 2.48 4K Write 5.79 4K Mixed 0.3 244% 2.86 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 133%
Seagate ST6000VN0041-2EL11C 6TB 247 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3TB free Firmware: SC61 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 64 228751990 (03) Spinup time 86 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 202 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 90 60 916399567 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 56723633085779 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 236 (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 72 57 471400476 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 2801 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 63 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 34557 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 68719476764 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 228751990 (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 -54215372170417 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34313550395 (F2) Unknown 100 253 146794042634	94.4% Outstanding	Read 161 Write 167 Mixed 148 119% 159 MB/s	4K Read 3.21 4K Write 3.77 4K Mixed 0.28 235% 2.42 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 109%
Toshiba HDWF180 8TB 2,355 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 2TB free Firmware: GX0B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10531 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 40 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2133 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 40 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2822 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 120259543063 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 98 98 1137 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 552 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	91.8% Outstanding	Read 158 Write 162 Mixed 146 117% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 3.55 4K Mixed 0.15 113% 1.48 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 133%
DISK00 5TB 1.5TB free Firmware: 0103 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	21.9% Poor	Read 36.6 Write 39.7 Mixed 38.3 29% 38.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.24 64% 0.55 MB/s

Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10288 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 164 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 3572 (0A) Spinup retry count 103 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 163 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 75 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1121 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 163209478167 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 92 92 3215 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 558 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	80.1% Excellent	Read 135 Write 145 Mixed 116 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.33 110% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 109%
WDC WD10 00DHTZ-04N21V0 1TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 931GB free, PID 2352 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	29.1% Poor	Read 41.2 Write 42.5 Mixed 41.5 54% 41.7 MB/s	4K Read 1.61 4K Write 4.39 4K Mixed 0.44 170% 2.14 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 29.1% Great: 29%
WD Elements 25A2 1TB 31,808 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 470GB free, PID 25a2 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	46.7% Average	Read 105 Write 91.8 Mixed 38.3 93% 78.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.24 4K Write 3.62 4K Mixed 0.37 140% 1.74 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 63%
Generic- USB3.0 CRW-SD 256GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 191GB free, PID 0301 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	20.1% Poor	Read 52.8 Write 19.5 Mixed 19.3 32% 30.6 MB/s	4K Read 9.03 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 1.45 150% 4.15 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 20.1% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D240FSB.16FAD BLS16G4D240FSB.16FAD Corsair CMU32GX4M4A2666C16 Corsair CMU32GX4M4A2666C16 KLEVV 8GBF1X08QFHH38-135-K KLEVV 8GBF1X08QFHH38-135-K Corsair CMU32GX4M4A2666C16 Corsair CMU32GX4M4A2666C16 80GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 16384, 16384, 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	MC Read 30.6 MC Write 51.4 MC Mixed 32 109% 38 GB/s	SC Read 8.2 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 11 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 87.3 46% 87.3 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 96%

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Gaming 99%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 93%

Nuclear submarine

Motherboard: Asus PRIME X299-A

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	374x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	217x
Core i9-7900XIntel $420Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	148x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	192x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	93x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	57x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	49x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x

RAM
BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 4x4GBCrucialBench 82%, 497 samples	53x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	32x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	25x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16