Asrock X299 Taichi XE

Performance Results


Gaming 129% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 166% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	127% 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	161% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB 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.

Motherboard	Asrock X299 Taichi XE (all builds)
Memory	43.8 GB free of 48 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 22 '18 at 06:11
Run Duration	207 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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 90.5 1-Core 150 2-Core 301 98% 181 Pts	4-Core 602 8-Core 1,203 106% 902 Pts	64-Core 3,356 208% 3,356 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: 397.64 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 168 Reflection 181 Parallax 146 137% 165 fps	MRender 140 Gravity 194 Splatting 135 126% 156 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% 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% 463GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	296% Outstanding	Read 2,355 Write 2,027 Mixed 2,250 493% 2,211 MB/s	4K Read 53.4 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 53 212% 75.5 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 132 146% 249 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 296% Great: 254%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 463GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	300% Outstanding	Read 2,413 Write 2,057 Mixed 2,267 501% 2,246 MB/s	4K Read 54.6 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 51.6 212% 75.2 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 129 144% 248 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 300% Great: 254%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 351GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF121C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	161% Outstanding	Read 1,569 Write 541 Mixed 798 212% 969 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 47 170% 65.1 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 146 148% 243 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 161% Great: 144%
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 as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 22 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13257 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7055 (64) Unknown 100 100 4350240 (AB) Unknown 82 0 2801 (AE) Unknown 33 100 2366 (B8) Unknown 16 100 569 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 11 (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 22 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 4359 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 5392 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1942474293 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 100 100 10000 (CE) Flying height 0 100 0 (CF) Spin high current 114 100 3422 (D0) Spin buzz 2 100 63 (D2) Unknown 100 100 21618 (D3) Unknown 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 653 (D5) Unknown 100 100 123 (D6) Unknown 100 100 530 (DD) G-sense error rate 100 100 36376 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 11 (E6) GMR head amplitude 1 100 1 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100 (F9) Unknown 100 100 10336 (FB) Unknown 100 100 18271	76.6% Very good	Read 349 Write 207 Mixed 262 60% 273 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 99.6 4K Mixed 25.5 135% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 243 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 83.8 102% 180 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 88%
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 (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 83 (03) Spinup time 143 143 42978050489 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6011 (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 23202 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2161 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 7178 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 7178 (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	87.6% Excellent	Read 146 Write 160 Mixed 152 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.21 98% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 87.6% 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 way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51618384 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8322 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5925882 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7719 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3478 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21475229702 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 538902559 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1773 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 20204 (C2) HDA temperature 31 44 42949672991 (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 -123566209103393 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31173765588 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40841463936	76.5% Very good	Read 149 Write 118 Mixed 116 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.16 55% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6x8GB 2,890 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 6 of 8 slots used 48GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3208 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	77.7% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 36.9 MC Mixed 24.2 83% 29.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.2 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 12.7 46% 16.1 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 85%

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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 $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	27x
Core i9-7980XEIntel $1,511Bench 80%, 4,653 samples	16x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	14x

GPU
RTX 3090Nvidia $1,306Bench 210%, 158,856 samples	20x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	16x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	8x

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	28x
4x16GBUnknownBench 98%, 9,153 samples	18x
8x8GBUnknownBench 94%, 4,255 samples	7x

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Value: 47% - Average

Total price: $1,931

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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