Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


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 brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	68.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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 PRO (all builds)
Memory	8 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '17 at 20:24
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

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 i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 99.4 2-Core 198 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 391 8-Core 599 61% 495 Pts	64-Core 727 45% 727 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Zotac(19DA 2368) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1557 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.4% Good	Lighting 87 Reflection 89.7 Parallax 87 71% 87.9 fps	MRender 84.3 Gravity 79.7 Splatting 71.2 63% 78.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 326GB free (System drive) Firmware: KC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 2942872 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2006 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 283199981 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7414 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1977 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BC) Unknown 100 97 1011 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 54 656867367 (C2) HDA temperature 39 46 47244640295 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 37 2942872 (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 83700322671851 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2871073209 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2086999273	55.4% Above average	Read 95.7 Write 97.7 Mixed 71 66% 88.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.02 4K Write 0.71 4K Mixed 0.14 30% 0.29 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 82GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 13763053 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3648 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 4336604266 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11327 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3651 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065667 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 46 589430819 (C2) HDA temperature 35 54 55834574883 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 21 13763053 (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 -126259153579342 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3006013288 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2323640625	54.7% Above average	Read 103 Write 87.7 Mixed 83.7 69% 91.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.44 95% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 76.0136G.C15 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 10GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	55% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 18 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 13.8 SC Mixed 12.4 40% 14.1 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 55%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 53%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	543x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	386x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	98x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	36x

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	20x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $881

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