Asus SABERTOOTH X99

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	240% 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X99 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '18 at 22:42
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6850K-$115 29,279 User benchmarks, average bench 84% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 123 2-Core 239 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 734 74% 599 Pts	64-Core 948 59% 948 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 53% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 99GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	240% Outstanding	Read 2,704 Write 1,221 Mixed 1,329 384% 1,751 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 36.2 175% 70.1 MB/s	DQ Read 49.2 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 22.7 41% 76.3 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 240% Great: 236%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 91GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4152948 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -94085553579510 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1438 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 94 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 22 33 60131704854 (C2) HDA temperature 22 33 60131704854 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4152948 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4152948 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4152948 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9556 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6110 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6110 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7651	64.7% Good	Read 512 Write 200 Mixed 271 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 81.2 4K Mixed 9.81 87% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 122 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 7.79 50% 112 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 66105032 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1863 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35701177 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5530 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1217 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 66 421003289 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27298 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 55834574873 (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 121934121536588 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18411878341 (F2) Unknown 100 253 147609048892	80.5% Excellent	Read 143 Write 138 Mixed 135 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.17 66% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 165132488 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5735 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 12959295191 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11993 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3840 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 65 454688795 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 745 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 84062 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 38654705691 (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 131524783512470 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34614022361755 (F2) Unknown 100 253 47610426442296	106% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 196 Mixed 160 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.4 107% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GB-$84 1,914 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 39.9 MC Write 48.2 MC Mixed 38.1 120% 42.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 19.9 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 62 65% 62 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 108%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	352x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	156x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	127x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	107x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	85x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	73x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	39x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	34x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	33x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	30x
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2800 C16 8x8GBG.SKILLBench 120%, 113 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	21x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $606

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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