Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 90% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	118% 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	61.1% 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 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '17 at 01:34
Run Duration	364 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 109 2-Core 215 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 614 61% 499 Pts	64-Core 811 50% 811 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	118% Outstanding	Lighting 166 Reflection 152 Parallax 135 135% 151 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 141 Splatting 112 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 465GB free Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	232% Outstanding	Read 2,086 Write 1,442 Mixed 1,358 360% 1,628 MB/s	4K Read 49 4K Write 82.6 4K Mixed 43.1 173% 58.2 MB/s	DQ Read 217 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 59.1 74% 135 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 232% Great: 254%
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1130 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 848 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 201 (A3) Unknown 100 100 19 (94) Unknown 100 100 289473 (95) Unknown 100 100 2798 (96) Unknown 100 100 2614 (97) Unknown 100 100 2783 (A4) Unknown 100 100 56770 (A5) Unknown 100 100 89 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 0 0 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 51 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 18 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 1	61.1% Good	Read 393 Write 268 Mixed 239 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 42.1 4K Mixed 12.3 78% 27 MB/s	DQ Read 190 DQ Write 98.4 DQ Mixed 38.5 57% 109 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 75391448 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3360 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5817785 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14530 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 746 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 94 94 6 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 53 4749328411 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11820 (C2) HDA temperature 27 47 -140737488355301 (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 27058293966211 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5096193314 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6192848606	65.3% Good	Read 96.3 Write 132 Mixed 103 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.26 77% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 484GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 182380118 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2763 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2641508 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1563 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 773 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 92 55837130864 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 49 454361115 (C2) HDA temperature 27 51 60129542171 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 24 182380118 (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 53034256175434 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2202004374 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2331489059
Poor: 34% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 139GB free Firmware: KC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 3744 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4467 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 42812124 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9167 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3737 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 147 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 50 94943641627 (C2) HDA temperature 27 50 -140737488355301 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 27 3744 (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 128904853464100 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3237292313 (F2) Unknown 100 253 577292217	53.5% Above average	Read 77.7 Write 109 Mixed 111 75% 99.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.6 102% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 3,839 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 41.8 MC Write 40.3 MC Mixed 36.3 113% 39.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 15.1 SC Mixed 14.4 44% 15.4 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 87%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	650x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	229x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

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