Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	123% 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	108% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	3.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170331
Uptime	5.4 Days
Run Date	Nov 02 '17 at 16:14
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	78.7% Very good	Memory 79.6 1-Core 106 2-Core 214 75% 134 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 678 67% 548 Pts	64-Core 836 52% 836 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 168 Reflection 159 Parallax 188 137% 172 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 174 Splatting 118 111% 138 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 500GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 124% 131GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4756 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1643 (B1) Unknown 98 98 38 (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 65 50 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 127 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31423920679	108% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 481 Mixed 499 110% 494 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 48.4 154% 52.8 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 100 110% 181 MB/s
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 129%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 229903088 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 373 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19769951 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 840 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 353 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 56 504627230 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16068 (C2) HDA temperature 30 44 64424509470 (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 46325517255194 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8865817039 (F2) Unknown 100 253 115800281993	84.2% Excellent	Read 196 Write 97.6 Mixed 136 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 0.51 4K Mixed 0.24 59% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 114%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 924GB free Firmware: JP4OA3GH Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 94 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 100 97 (03) Spinup time 125 100 25790382371 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5531 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 100 31 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 31565 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3583 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 76 29231862 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 371195936 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5556 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5556 (C2) HDA temperature 187 133 206159347744 (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	73.9% Very good	Read 133 Write 124 Mixed 121 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.4 102% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 1x8GB 203 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1 of 8 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	35.4% Below average	MC Read 12.7 MC Write 12.1 MC Mixed 10.5 34% 11.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 11.4 SC Mixed 11 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 81.2 49% 81.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 60%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,232x
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	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $250Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
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: 68% - Good

Total price: $744

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 $45	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