Asus P9X79

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 91.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	76.5% 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.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 18:56
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3960X 4,885 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 124 2-Core 248 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 759 74% 610 Pts	64-Core 934 58% 934 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 63GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3595 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 576 (B1) Unknown 97 97 48 (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 56 51 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23060114404	97% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 414 Mixed 422 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 41.6 4K Write 73.2 4K Mixed 38.8 152% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 41.4 DQ Write 172 DQ Mixed 79.5 69% 97.5 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 124%
Adata Premier SP550 120GB-$45 22,057 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 46GB free Firmware: O1230C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (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 100 100 121 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 890 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 107 (A3) Unknown 100 100 45 (A4) Unknown 100 100 17001 (A5) Unknown 100 100 16 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 9 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 153 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 48 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 25409 (F2) Unknown 100 100 46763 (F5) Unknown 100 100 34002	48.8% Average	Read 254 Write 140 Mixed 141 39% 178 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 36.9 4K Mixed 18.2 81% 26.7 MB/s	DQ Read 162 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 49.4 59% 104 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 91%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 9GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4099 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1432 (B1) Unknown 95 95 53 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 57 49 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 411 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16622310334	76.5% Very good	Read 501 Write 353 Mixed 341 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 58.7 4K Mixed 18.8 112% 38.3 MB/s	DQ Read 41.2 DQ Write 65.8 DQ Mixed 18.5 24% 41.8 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 130012776 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1530 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 23175744 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3887 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1257 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 55 673185832 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 325 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11809 (C2) HDA temperature 40 45 47244640296 (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 -77670188577911 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16430375583 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17210612919	92.8% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 149 Mixed 153 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.34 96% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE8G3D1869DE1TX0 2x8GB 65 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 23.7 MC Mixed 22.9 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 16.9 SC Mixed 14.7 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 48.1 83% 48.1 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 71%

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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	650x
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 $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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