Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	126% 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	65% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Sep 05 '17 at 03:44
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 110 2-Core 220 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 692 70% 565 Pts	64-Core 832 52% 832 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 151 Parallax 134 151% 157 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 134 Splatting 111 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 392GB free (System drive) Firmware: O0730A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1224 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1018 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 201 (A3) Unknown 100 100 19 (94) Unknown 100 100 322621 (95) Unknown 100 100 3124 (96) Unknown 100 100 2997 (97) Unknown 100 100 3102 (A4) Unknown 100 100 64682 (A5) Unknown 100 100 90 (A6) Unknown 100 100 8 (A7) Unknown 100 100 32 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 0 0 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 58 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 1	65% Good	Read 488 Write 259 Mixed 269 74% 339 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 36.3 4K Mixed 16.7 78% 26 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 10.4 43% 97.5 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 95%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 237GB free Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	211% Outstanding	Read 1,741 Write 1,360 Mixed 1,189 317% 1,430 MB/s	4K Read 49.9 4K Write 98.7 4K Mixed 29.3 165% 59.3 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 163 DQ Mixed 101 107% 180 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 211% Great: 254%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 210341920 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3646 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6029314 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14874 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 913 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 94 94 6 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 71 53 4783210525 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19506 (C2) HDA temperature 29 47 -140737488355299 (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 -88158498716085 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5573402966 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6234644637	105% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 175 Mixed 180 137% 182 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.32 96% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 439GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20619326 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3189 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 3057733 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1855 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 940 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 92 60132163704 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 49 471400476 (C2) HDA temperature 28 51 60129542172 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 24 20619326 (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 13198434505832 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3002843288 (F2) Unknown 100 253 227300099
Poor: 34% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 3,839 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 42.5 MC Write 40.7 MC Mixed 37 114% 40.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 13.9 44% 15.4 GB/s	Latency 57.6 69% 57.6 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 87%

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

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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 $179	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