Asus PRIME X299-A

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 75.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	126% 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	195% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME X299-A (all builds)
Memory	21.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3620 x 2263 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180307
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 16 '20 at 12:21
Run Duration	229 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7820X-$375 28,524 User benchmarks, average bench 80% LGA 2066 R4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	Memory 72.2 1-Core 127 2-Core 245 81% 148 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 694 68% 560 Pts	64-Core 990 61% 990 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374D) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 457.51 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 180 Parallax 172 141% 175 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 174 Splatting 121 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 256GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 717 626 632 626 616 622 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	195% Outstanding	Read 1,824 Write 1,599 Mixed 667 SusWrite 640 263% 1,182 MB/s	4K Read 37 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 54.3 198% 75.7 MB/s	DQ Read 640 DQ Write 372 DQ Mixed 735 486% 582 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 195% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 446GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 659 558 556 558 558 559 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 3TB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 150 154 149 155 150 150 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	65% Good	Read 75 Write 117 Mixed 70.2 SusWrite 152 76% 103 MB/s	4K Read 1.9 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.7 166% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 90%
Seagate Expansion Desk 6TB 6,833 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 4TB free Firmware: 0915 SusWrite @10s intervals: 167 169 154 171 165 172 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Read 136 Write 146 Mixed 112 SusWrite 166 104% 140 MB/s	4K Read 5.6 4K Write 4.2 4K Mixed 0.7 389% 3.5 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 89%
Seagate Expansion Desk 6TB 6,833 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 4.5TB free Firmware: 0915 SusWrite @10s intervals: 39 41 42 42 42 42 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	22.8% Poor	Read 36.3 Write 36.7 Mixed 37 SusWrite 41.1 28% 37.8 MB/s	4K Read 2.3 4K Write 5 4K Mixed 0.7 266% 2.67 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 22.8% Great: 89%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4X8GF2666C16K4 4x8GB 151 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 42.8 MC Mixed 23.1 85% 29.9 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 9.5 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 96.3 42% 96.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 114%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 93%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME X299-A

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	374x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	217x
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	148x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	192x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	93x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	57x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	49x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x

RAM
BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 4x4GBCrucialBench 82%, 497 samples	53x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	32x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	25x

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Total price: $744

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