Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	93.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.4% 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.

Very high background CPU (55%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 22:05
Run Duration	155 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	55%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Memory 88.7 1-Core 98.3 2-Core 193 74% 127 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 495 55% 434 Pts	64-Core 493 30% 493 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.4% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 121 Parallax 101 99% 114 fps	MRender 99.7 Gravity 104 Splatting 102 83% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5305 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1274 (B1) Unknown 97 97 177 (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 76 53 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 707 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31411046993	66.4% Good	Read 526 Write 213 Mixed 389 83% 376 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 18.5 102% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 25.6 DQ Write 82.6 DQ Mixed 18 24% 42.1 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 199065856 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1881 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 54 21493355186 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1122 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 74 42 120696471578 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 290 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 45038 (C2) HDA temperature 26 58 -140737488355302 (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 26568667696333 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15261606258 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31421625275	109% Outstanding	Read 208 Write 173 Mixed 159 135% 180 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.37 102% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 296 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	MC Read 32.4 MC Write 34.8 MC Mixed 31.3 94% 32.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 14.4 SC Mixed 13.1 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 82%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	542x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	91x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	35x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	19x

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Total price: $896

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