Asrock X299 Taichi XE

Performance Results


Gaming 145% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 139% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	141% 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	159% 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 GB free of 64 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1081 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180226
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 04:00
Run Duration	260 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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)	101% Outstanding	Memory 90 1-Core 150 2-Core 301 98% 181 Pts	4-Core 603 8-Core 1,202 106% 902 Pts	64-Core 1,075 66% 1,075 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 101% 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)	141% Outstanding	Lighting 202 Reflection 214 Parallax 215 165% 210 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 193 Splatting 136 126% 155 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 141% 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)	287% Outstanding	Read 2,392 Write 1,974 Mixed 1,435 429% 1,934 MB/s	4K Read 49.2 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 47.8 192% 67.6 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 118 132% 230 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 287% 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)	290% Outstanding	Read 2,353 Write 1,978 Mixed 1,803 455% 2,045 MB/s	4K Read 52.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 52.2 203% 70.5 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 118 133% 231 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 290% Great: 254%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 350GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF121C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	159% Outstanding	Read 1,559 Write 555 Mixed 788 212% 968 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 46 166% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 129 132% 218 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 159% 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 (82^nd 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 4631 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 50 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4435 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 53 201864511514 (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 100 100 144 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 33843829869 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1061796426 (F8) Unknown 100 100 513603026	99.3% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 483 Mixed 465 109% 487 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 93.2 4K Mixed 33.7 136% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 51.5 74% 134 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 99.3% 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 (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13078 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6924 (64) Unknown 100 100 4284256 (AB) Unknown 83 0 2823 (AE) Unknown 33 100 2285 (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 4319 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 5346 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1895030709 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 100 100 10000 (CE) Flying height 0 100 0 (CF) Spin high current 112 100 3369 (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 10194 (FB) Unknown 100 100 18060	82.7% Excellent	Read 473 Write 208 Mixed 289 71% 324 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 93.2 4K Mixed 26.9 136% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 89 109% 193 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 88%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 144GB 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 6636 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6511 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6282 (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 12387963501 (F7) Unknown 100 100 390721691 (F8) Unknown 100 100 147004109 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1936 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	59.8% Above average	Read 351 Write 253 Mixed 254 63% 286 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 40.8 4K Mixed 17.4 78% 27 MB/s	DQ Read 208 DQ Write 97.9 DQ Mixed 46.7 63% 117 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 59.8% 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 139 139 30097539470 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5886 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 23003 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2036 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6834 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6834 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 214749544479 (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	91.8% Outstanding	Read 159 Write 160 Mixed 159 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.23 108% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 91.8% 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 (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 89878832 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8194 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5438872 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7521 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3349 (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 555483164 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1695 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19687 (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 -65017214924505 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27933813968 (F2) Unknown 100 253 37447561385	82.6% Excellent	Read 144 Write 144 Mixed 125 103% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.16 64% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.6% 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 @ 3206 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	135% Outstanding	MC Read 47.4 MC Write 70 MC Mixed 46.1 156% 54.5 GB/s	SC Read 9.2 SC Write 27.6 SC Mixed 11.6 46% 16.1 GB/s	Latency 67.3 60% 67.3 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 142%

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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