Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% 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	68.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 31 '18 at 10:07
Run Duration	255 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	76.5% Very good	Memory 94.8 1-Core 112 2-Core 196 79% 134 Pts	4-Core 315 8-Core 552 52% 433 Pts	64-Core 527 33% 527 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% EVGA(3842 5671) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 139 Parallax 131 108% 134 fps	MRender 89.5 Gravity 124 Splatting 105 87% 106 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 500GB 2,934 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 370GB free Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 9 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 3 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 65 60 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 251058240	123% Outstanding	Read 532 Write 509 Mixed 526 117% 522 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 51.7 184% 65 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 298 DQ Mixed 135 151% 256 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 118%
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 89970975844767 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1452 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1162 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 115 115 111113016 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1162 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 768462 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 45 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 97 97 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 768462 (F2) Unknown 100 100 654482 (F9) Unknown 100 100 40380	68.7% Good	Read 499 Write 121 Mixed 194 59% 271 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 89.9 4K Mixed 19.5 118% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 170 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 42.7 63% 118 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 65 220348144 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1940905 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17489106829321 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1 (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 64 64 605421604 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 94489280548 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 65 220348144 (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 67100274065417 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4216754581 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1335434	57.6% Above average	Read 107 Write 94.1 Mixed 57 64% 86.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 0.56 4K Mixed 0.12 37% 0.33 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 90%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 214793584 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8977 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3716783 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23510 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 975 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 65 55 43588911139 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 121 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 45457 (C2) HDA temperature 35 45 -140737488355293 (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 27891517623426 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12642082634 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6025589960	62.6% Good	Read 99.2 Write 119 Mixed 92.1 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.16 51% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 96%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 901GB free Firmware: 0A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 204 177 6758 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5475 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8708 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 492 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19351 (C2) HDA temperature 116 105 36 (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	55.6% Above average	Read 104 Write 89.4 Mixed 92.6 72% 95.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.22 82% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 83%
WDC WD15 EARX-22PASB0 1.5TB 55GB free, PID 2773 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	14.3% Very poor	Read 38 Write 37.9 Mixed 8.39 33% 28.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.16 4K Mixed 0.04 7% 0.09 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 402 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	MC Read 35.2 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 34.4 105% 36.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 14.7 SC Mixed 13.9 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 105%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	647x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	229x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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