Asus P9X79 DELUXE

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.3% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	61% 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 DELUXE (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121225
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '16 at 20:34
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 above expectations (83^rd percentile)	74.1% Very good	Memory 88.3 1-Core 98.8 2-Core 197 74% 128 Pts	4-Core 327 8-Core 458 49% 392 Pts	64-Core 503 31% 503 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.3% Very poor	Lighting 17.5 Reflection 13.6 Parallax 14.6 14% 15.2 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 11.6 Splatting 17.3 11% 13.5 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.3% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 114GB 51 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 20GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	61% Good	Read 416 Write 124 Mixed 158 50% 232 MB/s	4K Read 20.2 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 16.9 105% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 145 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 37.8 56% 104 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 83%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 285GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 178GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 205 Mixed 184 141% 187 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 4.48 4K Mixed 0.97 228% 2.12 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 108%
WD WD3200JD-22K 320GB 730 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 4GB free Firmware: 08.0 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 214 184 4266 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6582 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29627 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6056 (C2) HDA temperature 105 91 45 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2485 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	19.4% Very poor	Read 27.4 Write 39.6 Mixed 40.9 27% 35.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.44 101% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 19.4% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	MC Read 32 MC Write 34.9 MC Mixed 30.9 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 13.4 SC Mixed 12.8 39% 13.6 GB/s	Latency 69.3 58% 69.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 77%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 DELUXE - $500

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	254x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	162x
Core i7-3960XIntel $265Bench 78%, 2,165 samples	31x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	35x
GTX 680Nvidia $360Bench 32%, 38,995 samples	32x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	32x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	29x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	26x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	19x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	11x
DDR3 1600G DDR3 1600G Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G 12GBAdataBench 52%, 28 samples	11x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $1,060

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16