Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 90.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	77.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	57.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20131015
Uptime	10.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 17 '16 at 22:30
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4930K-$90 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.7 1-Core 114 2-Core 228 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 679 70% 567 Pts	64-Core 843 52% 843 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 8549) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5891 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.9% Very good	Lighting 99.7 Reflection 104 Parallax 92.3 81% 98.8 fps	MRender 87.1 Gravity 90 Splatting 85.2 71% 87.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 18521276 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 1606317779523 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1460 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 64 (B1) Unknown 0 0 12 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 82 73019818013 (C2) HDA temperature 29 82 73019818013 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18521276 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18521276 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18521276 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 23056 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11789 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11789 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8933	57.1% Above average	Read 482 Write 180 Mixed 185 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 60.2 4K Mixed 10.5 87% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 29.9 DQ Write 62.9 DQ Mixed 8.28 17% 33.7 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 87%
WD Se 3TB (2013)-$67 926 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 23GB free Firmware: 01.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 144 11383 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 509 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2059 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (10) Unknown 2 198 51266219043 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 500 (C2) HDA temperature 113 101 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	66.1% Good	Read 109 Write 121 Mixed 112 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.88 4K Mixed 0.23 100% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 99%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 32GB 6,329 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 12GB free, PID 1665 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	8.73% Terrible	Read 21.8 Write 18.1 Mixed 8.9 19% 16.3 MB/s	4K Read 6.73 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.009 26% 2.25 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 8.73% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 2,772 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	MC Read 48.2 MC Write 47.2 MC Mixed 45.4 134% 46.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 15.4 SC Mixed 15.4 47% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 54.8 73% 54.8 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 104%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	652x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	230x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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