Asus X99-A

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (24th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 76 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 66.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Boot Drive	67.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	18.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140829
Uptime	6 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '17 at 20:16
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	66.3% Good	Memory 72.2 1-Core 88.5 2-Core 155 62% 105 Pts	4-Core 325 8-Core 619 56% 472 Pts	64-Core 985 61% 985 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 90GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26811 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1120 (B1) Unknown 94 94 199 (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 70 44 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 79950885123	76.7% Very good	Read 514 Write 458 Mixed 473 107% 481 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 41.7 4K Mixed 17.9 79% 27.3 MB/s	DQ Read 23.6 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 15.4 38% 73.9 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 118%
OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 PCIe 240GB 1,088 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 117 151229488 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 11884174547600 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1110 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 82 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 151229488 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 151229488 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 151229488 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 0 (F1) Unknown 0 0 57356 (F2) Unknown 0 0 55957	67.1% Good	Read 678 Write 177 Mixed 208 76% 354 MB/s	4K Read 18.7 4K Write 42.5 4K Mixed 13.9 69% 25.1 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 63.4 83% 153 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205949280 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5017 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 55 17213508931 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14202 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 66 58 588251170 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29727 (C2) HDA temperature 34 42 68719476770 (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 -64896955841202 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -110622409448290 (F2) Unknown 100 253 70233937267400	89.4% Excellent	Read 157 Write 155 Mixed 121 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.38 109% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 113%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 75GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 81 0 (03) Spinup time 75 75 8380 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10478 (05) Reallocated sector count 80 80 873 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 60875 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1326 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 81 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1498 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 504168477 (C2) HDA temperature 70 47 537591838 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 307025707 (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 99 4 (C8) Write error rate 99 97 2153 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	43.5% Average	Read 73.4 Write 78 Mixed 107 66% 86.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.32 95% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 8x4GB 556 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	98% Outstanding	MC Read 42.5 MC Write 34.6 MC Mixed 39.8 111% 39 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 16.5 SC Mixed 17.5 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 96.5 42% 96.5 ns
Poor: 98% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 131%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,228x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	170x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $763

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