Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 84.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	77.8% 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	92.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Mar 02 '18 at 13:09
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 103 2-Core 208 78% 134 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 655 65% 531 Pts	64-Core 829 51% 829 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Asus(1043 8539) CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.8% Very good	Lighting 100 Reflection 107 Parallax 95 82% 101 fps	MRender 85 Gravity 91.3 Splatting 82.2 70% 86.2 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 284GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22199 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 297 (B1) Unknown 97 97 57 (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 68 52 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 56 (F1) Unknown 99 99 58518453868	92.7% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 403 Mixed 416 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 74.4 4K Mixed 24.2 123% 44.4 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 79.6 108% 196 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 134%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 131 131 25789137178 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3026 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 25469 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 449 (C0) Power-off retract count 85 85 18852 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 18852 (C2) HDA temperature 230 230 193273462810 (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	87.9% Excellent	Read 165 Write 141 Mixed 163 118% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.21 91% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR4 2400 2OZ 4x4GB 368 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 39.2 MC Write 41.4 MC Mixed 37 112% 39.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 20.6 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 102%

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Gaming 45%

Yacht

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,232x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16