Asrock X299 Professional Gaming i9 XE

Performance Results


Gaming 120% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 140% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
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	205% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock X299 Professional Gaming i9 XE (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170928
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 14 '18 at 18:55
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7920X-$250 5,430 User benchmarks, average bench 82% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 12 cores, 24 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	98% Outstanding	Memory 87.8 1-Core 142 2-Core 281 93% 170 Pts	4-Core 579 8-Core 1,147 102% 863 Pts	64-Core 2434 151% 2434 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Nvidia(10DE 119A) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (67^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 176 Parallax 165 140% 171 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 163 Splatting 115 108% 133 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 438GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 15222 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1412 (A5) Unknown 100 100 360854913986 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A8) Unknown 100 100 72 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 16 (AE) Unknown 100 100 242 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 58 249109217313 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4647206257722 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7214 (EA) Unknown 100 100 19968 (F1) Unknown 253 253 14091 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7849 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	66.7% Good	Read 493 Write 329 Mixed 342 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 25.1 4K Mixed 16 61% 19.6 MB/s	DQ Read 239 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 49.1 74% 142 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 108%
Crucial BX200 960GB-$80 1,195 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 326GB free Firmware: MU01.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^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 100 100 861 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1218 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 115 (A3) Unknown 100 100 1251 (94) Unknown 100 100 196479 (95) Unknown 100 100 1513 (96) Unknown 100 100 1352 (97) Unknown 100 100 1477 (A4) Unknown 100 100 72279 (A5) Unknown 100 100 77 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 109 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 44157266100258 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 512362 (F2) Unknown 100 100 438452 (F5) Unknown 100 100 853795 (F6) Unknown 100 100 785916 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	56.5% Above average	Read 479 Write 248 Mixed 268 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 18.3 4K Write 18.5 4K Mixed 11.8 53% 16.2 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 41.8 59% 111 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 100%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 250GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	205% Outstanding	Read 1,832 Write 1,375 Mixed 1,207 326% 1,472 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 29.3 4K Mixed 22.7 80% 25 MB/s	DQ Read 576 DQ Write 478 DQ Mixed 10.1 149% 355 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 205% Great: 254%
Seagate Expansion 2TB 49,966 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 388GB free Firmware: 0502 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	50% Above average	Read 88.5 Write 85.7 Mixed 75.4 62% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.31 84% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	65.1% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 30.8 MC Mixed 18.1 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 10.4 39% 13.6 GB/s	Latency 69.7 57% 69.7 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 97%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 112%

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Motherboard: Asrock X299 Professional Gaming i9 XE

CPU
Core i9-7900XIntel $462Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	15x
Core i9-7980XEIntel $1,511Bench 80%, 4,653 samples	10x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	10x
RTX 3090Nvidia $1,306Bench 210%, 158,856 samples	9x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	5x

SSD
E12-512G-PHISON-SSD-B27-BB1 512GBBench 178%, 586 samples	8x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 235%, 154,949 samples	6x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	6x

RAM
4x16GBUnknownBench 98%, 9,153 samples	14x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	8x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	8x

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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