Asrock X299 Taichi XE

Performance Results


Gaming 142% UFO	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 184% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 100%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	140% 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	156% 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	58.8 GB free of 64 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1081 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 10 '18 at 02:35
Run Duration	259 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 (97^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Memory 88 1-Core 150 2-Core 300 98% 180 Pts	4-Core 602 8-Core 1,202 106% 902 Pts	64-Core 3,318 205% 3,318 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 100% 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: 2075 MHz, MLim: 3252 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	Lighting 200 Reflection 214 Parallax 213 163% 209 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 192 Splatting 133 124% 154 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 140% 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% 729GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	289% Outstanding	Read 2,360 Write 1,969 Mixed 1,818 456% 2,049 MB/s	4K Read 53.1 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 50.2 202% 70.5 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 117 132% 228 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 289% Great: 254%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 729GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	292% Outstanding	Read 2,352 Write 1,977 Mixed 1,760 451% 2,030 MB/s	4K Read 55.6 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 54.3 211% 72.9 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 117 131% 228 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 292% Great: 254%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 356GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF121C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	156% Outstanding	Read 1,554 Write 548 Mixed 777 210% 960 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 45.5 160% 59.7 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 131 128% 209 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 156% Great: 144%
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 331GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st 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 23585 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4626 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 50 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4430 (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 100 100 143 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 33827901573 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1061284362 (F8) Unknown 100 100 513473229	98.7% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 478 Mixed 463 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 93.2 4K Mixed 33.4 136% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 134 DQ Write 206 DQ Mixed 50.6 72% 130 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 98.7% 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 above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13056 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6919 (64) Unknown 100 100 4280128 (AB) Unknown 83 0 2823 (AE) Unknown 32 100 2281 (B8) Unknown 16 100 569 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 46 62 4069678 (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 4314 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 5340 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1894325044 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 100 100 10000 (CE) Flying height 0 100 0 (CF) Spin high current 112 100 3368 (D0) Spin buzz 2 100 62 (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 10184 (FB) Unknown 100 100 18051	82.1% Excellent	Read 471 Write 209 Mixed 286 71% 322 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 94.5 4K Mixed 26 134% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 87.4 107% 190 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 82.1% 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 6612 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6505 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6277 (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 12375643094 (F7) Unknown 100 100 390321294 (F8) Unknown 100 100 146944310 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1936 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	59.1% Above average	Read 352 Write 241 Mixed 241 62% 278 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 40.8 4K Mixed 17.5 79% 27.1 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 93.4 DQ Mixed 47.4 62% 116 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 59.1% 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 way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 82 (03) Spinup time 144 144 42979623321 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5867 (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 22978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2031 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6737 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6737 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 214749544477 (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	91.9% Outstanding	Read 152 Write 169 Mixed 167 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.24 105% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 318GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 133324840 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8175 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5369947 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7497 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3344 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21475229702 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 555352092 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1693 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19567 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 42949672988 (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 -58957016069861 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27865544308 (F2) Unknown 100 253 37353628051	79% Very good	Read 135 Write 141 Mixed 125 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.17 66% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79% 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 @ 3206 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	134% Outstanding	MC Read 46.7 MC Write 69.7 MC Mixed 46.2 155% 54.2 GB/s	SC Read 8.8 SC Write 28.2 SC Mixed 11.8 46% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 69.5 58% 69.5 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 134% 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