Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 87%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% 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	59.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 28 '18 at 19:51
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	SVN-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 114 2-Core 227 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 581 64% 505 Pts	64-Core 583 36% 583 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 157 Parallax 134 118% 145 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 138 Splatting 113 100% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$30 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: 71E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 646 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 238 (94) Unknown 255 255 0 (95) Unknown 255 255 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 9 (AA) Unknown 100 100 10 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1441825 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 255 255 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C2) HDA temperature 67 61 167504904225 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2265 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2417 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2670 (F4) Unknown 100 100 22 (F5) Unknown 100 100 33 (F6) Unknown 100 100 130392	59.6% Above average	Read 392 Write 267 Mixed 291 70% 317 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 55.9 4K Mixed 3.97 75% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 129 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 6.65 48% 109 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 85%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 908GB free Firmware: 1A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 172 1766 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 960 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1033 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 526 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 106 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1854 (C2) HDA temperature 111 105 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	96.5% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 167 Mixed 160 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.37 125% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 704 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	66.3% Good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 23.3 MC Mixed 22 67% 23.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 16 SC Mixed 13.9 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 55 73% 55 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 77%

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

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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	652x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	230x

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 $273	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