Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 81.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.2% 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	76.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	24.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160111
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	May 21 '17 at 09:02
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Memory 89.4 1-Core 92 2-Core 192 72% 124 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 648 64% 521 Pts	64-Core 834 52% 834 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 113 Parallax 102 88% 108 fps	MRender 94.4 Gravity 98.3 Splatting 90.3 77% 94.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 81GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7359 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 425 (B1) Unknown 98 98 29 (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 70 49 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 42 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17907110360	88% Excellent	Read 502 Write 405 Mixed 418 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 46.6 4K Mixed 28.5 101% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 293 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 104 124% 215 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 134%
SSD 120GB 22,748 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7357 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 428 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 161 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1638454 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 75 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6877	76.5% Very good	Read 514 Write 470 Mixed 494 110% 493 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 48.3 4K Mixed 10.1 70% 26.4 MB/s	DQ Read 23.3 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 53.4 73% 124 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 94%
Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 1TB-$150 19,279 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 582GB free Firmware: MS2OA650 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 71 (03) Spinup time 108 108 17193631957 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2813 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 25089 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1397 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2821 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2821 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 274878431261 (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 200 200 0	90.6% Outstanding	Read 148 Write 168 Mixed 146 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.17 77% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 99%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 4x8GB 1,060 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	63.2% Good	MC Read 25.9 MC Write 19.9 MC Mixed 22 65% 22.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 18.2 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 109%

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Gaming 66%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI-CF

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	160x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	63x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	54x

GPU
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	40x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	40x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	29x

SSD
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBWD $74Bench 228%, 180,890 samples	20x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
DDR4 2800 2OZ 4x4GBUnknownBench 86%, 872 samples	11x
DDR4 2800 2OZ 4x8GBUnknownBench 86%, 829 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GBCorsairBench 89%, 2,538 samples	7x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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