Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 74%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 77%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 61%
Destroyer
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics103% 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 DriveThe boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
MotherboardAsus P9X79 PRO  (all builds)
Memory8.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20131015
Uptime0 Days
Run DateOct 09 '20 at 01:51
Run Duration140 Seconds
Run User GBR-User
Background CPU4%

 PC Performing above expectations (80th percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2-$345
LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg)
Performing above expectations (78th percentile)
74% Very good
Memory 85.9
1-Core 101
2-Core 205
75% 131 Pts
4-Core 336
8-Core 514
53% 425 Pts
64-Core 520
32% 520 Pts
Poor: 63%
This bench: 74%
Great: 79%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 456.71
Performing way above expectations (98th percentile)
103% Outstanding
Lighting 136
Reflection 139
Parallax 131
111% 136 fps
MRender 97.7
Gravity 128
Splatting 105
90% 110 fps
Poor: 86%
This bench: 103%
Great: 101%
Drives BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
WD WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0 500GB
434GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 02.01A02
SusWrite @10s intervals: 125 116 122 130 136 132 MB/s
Performing way above expectations (86th percentile)
76.9% Very good
Read 142
Write 129
Mixed 73.7
SusWrite 126
86% 118 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 2.4
4K Mixed 0.8
158% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 32%
This bench: 76.9%
Great: 82%
USB Flash Disk 8GB
1GB free, PID 1000
Operating at USB 2.0 Speed
SusWrite @10s intervals: 7.8 10 11 10 11 9.7 MB/s
Performing above expectations (65th percentile)
6.07% Terrible
Read 20.3
Write 1.2
Mixed 6.3
SusWrite 9.9
10% 9.42 MB/s
4K Read 4.1
4K Write 0
4K Mixed 0
15% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 3%
This bench: 6.07%
Great: 9%
8GB free, PID 1000
Operating at USB 2.0 Speed
SusWrite @10s intervals: 7.6 9 10 10 10 10 MB/s
Performing above expectations (75th percentile)
6.6% Terrible
Read 22
Write 3.5
Mixed 6.8
SusWrite 9.7
12% 10.5 MB/s
4K Read 5.5
4K Write 0
4K Mixed 0
20% 1.83 MB/s
Poor: 3%
This bench: 6.6%
Great: 15%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Kingston 99U5471-012.A00LF 9905471-006.A01LF 99U5471-012.A00LF 12GB
1333, 1333, 1333 MHz
4096, 4096, 4096 MB
Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
62% Good
MC Read 23.2
MC Write 22
MC Mixed 22.8
65% 22.7 GB/s
SC Read 15.5
SC Write 14.3
SC Mixed 12.4
40% 14.1 GB/s
Latency 71.3
56% 71.3 ns
Poor: 29%
This bench: 62%
Great: 62%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical P9X79 PRO Builds (Compare 1,416 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 61%
Destroyer
Desktop
Desktop 79%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 53%
Yacht

Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 84% - Excellent Total price: $877
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