Intel X79

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 78%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	86.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	33.6% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Intel X79 (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170628
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 20:12
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4960X-$1,189 5,121 User benchmarks, average bench 78% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	78% Very good	Memory 84.3 1-Core 97.3 2-Core 200 73% 127 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 627 62% 507 Pts	64-Core 771 48% 771 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 116 Parallax 115 90% 114 fps	MRender 96.7 Gravity 102 Splatting 95.3 80% 98.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 117 153726925 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 -129776731763890 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 364 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 503 (B1) Unknown 0 0 11 (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 153726925 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 153726925 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 153726925 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 90 90 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 48948 (EA) Unknown 0 0 33251 (F1) Unknown 0 0 33251 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17319	33.6% Below average	Read 188 Write 90.1 Mixed 111 28% 130 MB/s	4K Read 13.4 4K Write 36.2 4K Mixed 11.9 55% 20.5 MB/s	DQ Read 96 DQ Write 94 DQ Mixed 30.9 41% 73.6 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33.6% Great: 61%
WD WD1001FAES-60Z2A0 1TB 11,642 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 623GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 175 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1997 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 18 18 59914 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1509 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 234 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1762 (C2) HDA temperature 112 89 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 3 (F0) Head flying hours 28 28 53256 (F1) Unknown 200 200 27186409274 (F2) Unknown 200 200 35261198266	50.3% Above average	Read 89 Write 86.1 Mixed 94.3 68% 89.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.29 82% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 228GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 110853480 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 782 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 107028680 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 36037 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 277 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 71 47 13440319517 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 170 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 15 15 170446 (C2) HDA temperature 29 53 -140737488355299 (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 -17652315551070 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22293980633 (F2) Unknown 100 253 29020015789	87.9% Excellent	Read 159 Write 148 Mixed 141 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 112%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 132GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 179 5666 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1191 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 22 22 57423 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 509 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 2200312 (C2) HDA temperature 117 100 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	30% Below average	Read 49.6 Write 54.8 Mixed 50.2 39% 51.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.18 66% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 30% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Mushkin 998995 4x4GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	86.3% Excellent	MC Read 35.2 MC Write 33.1 MC Mixed 32.5 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 12.9 40% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 73 55% 73 ns
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 100%

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Gaming 35%

Jet ski

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Intel X79

CPU
Xeon E5-2689 0IntelBench 71%, 6,987 samples	339x
Xeon E5-2650 v2IntelBench 67%, 5,123 samples	267x
Xeon E5-2640 0IntelBench 65%, 3,274 samples	143x

GPU
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	126x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	113x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	107x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	63x
A400 120GBKingston $32Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	45x
256GB 256GBSSDBench 77%, 9,229 samples	35x

RAM
M393B5170GB0- 2x4GBSamsungBench 52%, 1,540 samples	127x
M393B1K70DH0- 2x8GBSamsungBench 54%, 1,683 samples	62x
HMT151R7BFR4C 4x4GBHynixBench 67%, 393 samples	58x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $158

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 $184	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) $35	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