Asrock X299 Taichi XE

Performance Results


Gaming 136% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 178% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	136% 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	164% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Run History

Motherboard	Asrock X299 Taichi XE (all builds)
Memory	59.8 GB free of 64 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '18 at 00:04
Run Duration	262 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7960X-$347 2,322 User benchmarks, average bench 83% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	98.4% Outstanding	Memory 84.7 1-Core 150 2-Core 301 96% 179 Pts	4-Core 600 8-Core 1196 106% 898 Pts	64-Core 3,346 207% 3,346 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 99%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% PNY(196E 1211) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 3252 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 207 Parallax 191 157% 197 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 185 Splatting 135 123% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 823GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	297% Outstanding	Read 2,474 Write 2,039 Mixed 2,280 505% 2,264 MB/s	4K Read 51.1 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 52.9 201% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 126 135% 230 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 297% Great: 254%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 823GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	296% Outstanding	Read 2,467 Write 2,059 Mixed 2,249 503% 2,258 MB/s	4K Read 50.6 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 48.4 194% 67.7 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 122 132% 225 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 296% Great: 254%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 402GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF121C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	164% Outstanding	Read 1,581 Write 557 Mixed 796 214% 978 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 47.4 174% 67.1 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 149 152% 249 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 164% Great: 144%
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 339GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^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 23559 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4585 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 49 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4403 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 53 201864511516 (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 100 100 134 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 33523501463 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1051548831 (F8) Unknown 100 100 511247080	101% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 477 Mixed 476 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 97.4 4K Mixed 34.5 141% 53.9 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 51.2 85% 159 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 107%
OCZ INTREPID 3700 240GB 129 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 179GB free Firmware: 1.5.0.7 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12755 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6875 (64) Unknown 100 100 4229888 (AB) Unknown 83 0 2823 (AE) Unknown 32 100 2258 (B8) Unknown 16 100 569 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 45 62 4069677 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 0 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 0 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 4226 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 5254 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1866335112 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 100 100 10000 (CE) Flying height 0 100 0 (CF) Spin high current 111 100 3349 (D0) Spin buzz 2 100 61 (D2) Unknown 100 100 21618 (D3) Unknown 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 547 (D5) Unknown 100 100 105 (D6) Unknown 100 100 442 (DD) G-sense error rate 100 100 29456 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 1 100 1 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100 (F9) Unknown 100 100 10045 (FB) Unknown 100 100 17833	84.5% Excellent	Read 467 Write 209 Mixed 289 71% 322 MB/s	4K Read 34.8 4K Write 97.7 4K Mixed 26.9 139% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 207 DQ Mixed 88.8 114% 208 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 88%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 143GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^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 6294 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6462 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6247 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 55 193274511389 (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 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 12188792798 (F7) Unknown 100 100 384247271 (F8) Unknown 100 100 143830642 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1936 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	59.6% Above average	Read 354 Write 240 Mixed 242 62% 279 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 42.6 4K Mixed 17.7 80% 27.7 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 93.1 DQ Mixed 48.3 64% 119 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 99%
Hitachi HUS724030ALE641 3TB 13,833 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 3TB free Firmware: MJ8OA5F0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 81 (03) Spinup time 173 173 42971431302 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5590 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 22660 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1989 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5990 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5990 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 214749544482 (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 200 200 0	66% Good	Read 69.9 Write 160 Mixed 149 96% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.24 99% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 319GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 199672520 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7899 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 5102208 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7178 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3301 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 571801632 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1681 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18625 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 42949672992 (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 -102340480726901 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27407230334 (F2) Unknown 100 253 36656543626	80.6% Excellent	Read 141 Write 140 Mixed 151 109% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.17 61% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8x8GB 4,255 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 8 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3208 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	135% Outstanding	MC Read 47.7 MC Write 69.3 MC Mixed 47.6 157% 54.9 GB/s	SC Read 8.2 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 11.4 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 72.4 55% 72.4 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 142%

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Gaming 168%

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 181%

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Motherboard: Asrock X299 Taichi XE

CPU
Core i9-7900XIntel $413Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	27x
Core i9-7980XEIntel $1,286Bench 80%, 4,653 samples	16x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	14x

GPU
RTX 3090Nvidia $1,148Bench 210%, 158,856 samples	20x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	16x
RTX 3080-TiNvidia $660Bench 204%, 155,335 samples	9x

SSD
970 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $170Bench 322%, 93,447 samples	12x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	9x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	7x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	29x
4x16GBUnknownBench 98%, 9,153 samples	18x
8x8GBUnknownBench 94%, 4,255 samples	7x

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Value: 51% - Above average

Total price: $1,730

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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