Asus Z9PA-D8 Series

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 71.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	92.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

System	Asus Z9PA-D8 Series (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK Z9PA-D8 Series
Memory	28.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150611
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	May 31 '16 at 00:24
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
1st CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 741 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket-R 2011, 2 CPU, 16 cores, 16 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	71.4% Very good	Memory 81.4 1-Core 86.2 2-Core 171 66% 113 Pts	4-Core 331 8-Core 643 58% 487 Pts	64-Core 1,265 78% 1,265 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6822 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.3% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 121 Parallax 112 97% 118 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 106 Splatting 96.1 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 100 960GB-$310 1,128 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 725GB free Firmware: SAFM11.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 216 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 35 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 73 62 163210067995	39.2% Below average	Read 466 Write 65.2 Mixed 235 55% 255 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 27.5 4K Mixed 7.49 53% 18 MB/s	DQ Read 24.7 DQ Write 34 DQ Mixed 6.39 11% 21.7 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 89%
LSI Logical Volume 478GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 108GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3000 Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 37% Great: 75%
Seagate ST33000651AS 3TB-$229 5,029 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 109637831 (03) Spinup time 91 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4330 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11208333 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16419 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2936 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 34360262664 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 66 48 571867170 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 967 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5143 (C2) HDA temperature 34 52 51539607586 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 20 4 109637831 (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 -119215407221174 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3181760567 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3757853369	67.9% Good	Read 125 Write 112 Mixed 107 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.29 85% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 86%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 47GB free Firmware: 0002BSM1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 95 151165008 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6708 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 42263655 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9741 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2511 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 170 (BC) Unknown 100 93 77310591100 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 44 13456900128 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 57 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 337848 (C2) HDA temperature 32 56 64424509472 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 33 151165008 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 178	25.1% Poor	Read 44.4 Write 43.1 Mixed 43.8 33% 43.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.23 54% 0.42 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 25.1% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 8x4GB 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	87.3% Excellent	MC Read 40.8 MC Write 35.9 MC Mixed 29.2 101% 35.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 5.6 SC Mixed 7.4 24% 8.47 GB/s	Latency 77.9 51% 77.9 ns

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Gaming 54%

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Desktop 70%

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Workstation 60%

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System: Asus Z9PA-D8 Series

CPU
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 01stBench 65%, 4,306 samples	18x
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2667 v21stBench 74%, 880 samples	7x
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670 01stBench 66%, 741 samples	7x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	8x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	6x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	5x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	4x
P3-256 256GBBench 69%, 2,367 samples	3x

RAM
M393B1G70BH0-CK 4x8GBSamsungBench 59%, 8 samples	3x
M393B1K70CH0-CH 4x8GBSamsungBench 51%, 15 samples	3x
M393B2G70DB0-YK 2x16GBSamsungBench 42%, 4 samples	2x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $241

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