Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding HDD
Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 57% Gunboat	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 73.4%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	98% 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	40.7% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '17 at 22:24
Run Duration	244 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-3930K-$600 10,786 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	73.4% Very good	SC Int 96.5 SC Float 94.5 SC Mixed 86.8 74% 92.6 Pts	QC Int 373 QC Float 370 QC Mixed 370 84% 371 Pts	MC Int 684 MC Float 708 MC Mixed 711 105% 701 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980 Ti-$550 72,871 User benchmarks, average bench 98% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	98% Outstanding	Lighting 308 Reflection 264 Parallax 316 96% 296 fps	MRender 196 Gravity 288 Splatting 206 99% 230 fps
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 115%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS13 11 240GB SSD 211 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 165GB free Firmware: CS13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3389 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 235 (A8) Unknown 100 100 40 (AA) Unknown 100 100 233 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262157 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 19 (E7) Temperature 100 100 96 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2159	40.7% Average	Read 321 Write 162 Mixed 223 52% 235 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 28.1 4K Mixed 10.4 57% 19.2 MB/s	DQ Read 21.3 DQ Write 32.6 DQ Mixed 10.2 12% 21.4 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 91%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$125 1,924 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6915 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 546 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 5641 (0A) Spinup retry count 110 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 367 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 82 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 552 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 180389412897 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 86 86 5638 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 208 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 59% Great: 99%
TREK TDMINIG4 2GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 2GB free, PID 1208 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	6.33% Terrible	Read 19.2 Write 8.07 Mixed 10.4 14% 12.6 MB/s	4K Read 7.33 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.01 28% 2.45 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.33% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866 CL10 Series 2x8GB 786 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	56.6% Above average	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 18.5 58% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 12.1 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 69%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds.

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Gaming 60%

Gunboat

Desktop 65%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 48%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $317

CPU
Core i7-3820Intel $345Bench 69%, 12,173 samples	737x
Core i7-3930KIntel $600Bench 76%, 10,786 samples	706x
Core i7-4930KIntel $600Bench 82%, 5,363 samples	110x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $370Bench 64%, 247,983 samples	205x
GTX 1080Nvidia $538Bench 127%, 208,140 samples	163x
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 265,250 samples	155x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 96%, 191,118 samples	150x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $80Bench 94%, 274,376 samples	82x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $163Bench 98%, 42,794 samples	65x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 8,224 samples	54x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 54%, 6,445 samples	54x
RipjawsZ DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 78%, 1,064 samples	37x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $1,169

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $80
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $170	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $290	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
Intel Core i7-7700K $290	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $190	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $204	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12