Asus X99-A II

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 79.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	110% 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 Drive	224% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A II (all builds)
Memory	27.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160628
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jul 15 '17 at 17:55
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 2.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	79.2% Very good	Memory 84.1 1-Core 108 2-Core 215 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 688 66% 544 Pts	64-Core 840 52% 840 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	110% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 189 Parallax 198 110% 174 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 182 Splatting 126 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 522GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 171 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 7 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 72 56 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5941043352	98.5% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 396 Mixed 426 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 40 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 31.1 139% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 120 130% 220 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 135%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	224% Outstanding	Read 2,495 Write 1,005 Mixed 1,248 346% 1,583 MB/s	4K Read 48.8 4K Write 88.1 4K Mixed 39.7 171% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 166 DQ Mixed 101 115% 201 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 224% Great: 236%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 116GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33069 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 727 (B1) Unknown 79 79 756 (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 77 55 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 74 (F1) Unknown 99 99 63653271364	55.5% Above average	Read 476 Write 156 Mixed 204 61% 278 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 38.9 4K Mixed 16.2 73% 25.3 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 53.1 DQ Mixed 39.6 49% 89.8 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 76%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 180381656 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 448 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 47295146571 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15326 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 243 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 51 504561685 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30077 (C2) HDA temperature 21 49 60129542165 (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 -23291607634503 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20519787398 (F2) Unknown 100 253 233581244247	104% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 181 Mixed 138 125% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 5.29 4K Mixed 0.82 221% 2.3 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 108%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 856GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 7 (03) Spinup time 173 169 4316 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 78 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7838 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 67 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2138 (C2) HDA temperature 126 102 21 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	72.1% Very good	Read 124 Write 127 Mixed 117 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.3 109% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 6,294 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2400 MHz clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	MC Read 44.3 MC Write 43.5 MC Mixed 42.4 124% 43.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 22.5 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 73.3 55% 73.3 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 77%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A II - $294

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	694x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	194x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	189x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	213x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	180x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	63x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	40x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	29x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	23x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	19x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $891

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