Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 114% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	128% 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	272% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	29.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colori, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '18 at 10:44
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 131 2-Core 265 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 525 8-Core 793 82% 659 Pts	64-Core 1,027 64% 1,027 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	128% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 160 Parallax 154 151% 166 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 147 Splatting 119 105% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 173GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7426 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3181 (B1) Unknown 97 97 159 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 55 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 696 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42238559193	121% Outstanding	Read 530 Write 499 Mixed 517 115% 515 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 47.2 172% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 177 184% 301 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 106GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 726 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 741 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 54 54 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 289 (F1) Unknown 99 99 372611418	117% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 411 Mixed 422 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 47 4K Write 92.7 4K Mixed 49.7 184% 63.1 MB/s	DQ Read 387 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 128 152% 266 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 88GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	272% Outstanding	Read 2,634 Write 1,258 Mixed 1,361 384% 1,751 MB/s	4K Read 60.3 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 51.5 230% 82.9 MB/s	DQ Read 585 DQ Write 349 DQ Mixed 194 218% 376 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 272% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 51GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5211 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4245 (B1) Unknown 98 98 34 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 50 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 5 (EB) Unknown 99 99 835 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7943293093	115% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 409 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 90.2 4K Mixed 47.1 179% 61.3 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 114 144% 259 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 587GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 69 63 7479105 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1759 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7493164 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1773 (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 62 54 639762470 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1772 (C2) HDA temperature 38 12 51539607590 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 7 1 7479105 (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 131666517427950 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3532557380 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7177144257	94.7% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 158 Mixed 140 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.32 93% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 112%
Seagate Constellation ES.3 1TB-$33 9,374 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 220GB free Firmware: SN04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 69 63 7699967 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5567 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 92 60 1625200859 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7462 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5592 (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 57 47 724107307 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1408 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5599 (C2) HDA temperature 43 53 55834574891 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 59 5 7699967 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	72.5% Very good	Read 126 Write 126 Mixed 106 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 0.57 161% 1.38 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2666 C16 8x4GB 94 User benchmarks, average bench 118% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	142% Outstanding	MC Read 49.9 MC Write 65.6 MC Mixed 53.1 161% 56.2 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 24.3 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 52.2 77% 52.2 ns
Poor: 101% ↑ This bench: 142% Great: 141%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,230x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $274Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $763

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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