Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 118% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 107% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	132% 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	92.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150410
Uptime	11.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 08 '18 at 07:20
Run Duration	318 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 116 2-Core 227 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 778 75% 619 Pts	64-Core 947 59% 947 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 186 Reflection 198 Parallax 202 152% 195 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 182 Splatting 127 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18595 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 34 (B1) Unknown 99 99 46 (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 59 47 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16868821594	92.6% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 496 Mixed 502 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 91.3 4K Mixed 23.7 131% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 21.9 30% 51.4 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$89 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 172GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 103960304 (03) Spinup time 99 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 10029 (05) Reallocated sector count 1 1 4095 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 405766444 (09) Power-on hours count 18 18 72613 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 5 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 676 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 8590065701 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 205 (BE) vendor-specific 54 36 -116212299661266 (C2) HDA temperature 46 64 68719476782 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 17 103960304 (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 124416612699814 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1703450993 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2335516801	27.1% Poor	Read 6.26 Write 88 Mixed 61.4 40% 51.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.41 94% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 27.1% Great: 70%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 8GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 5GB free, PID 007b Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	7.25% Terrible	Read 22 Write 5.69 Mixed 7.71 12% 11.8 MB/s	4K Read 4.48 4K Write 0.58 4K Mixed 0.51 54% 1.86 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.25% Great: 7%

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 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	94.4% Outstanding	MC Read 35.9 MC Write 38.8 MC Mixed 33.2 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 20.1 53% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 108%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,233x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $250Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 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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Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16