Asus ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 79.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	119% 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	188% 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.

Very high background CPU (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	22.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170613
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '18 at 17:16
Run Duration	366 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	32%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7800X-$216 22,334 User benchmarks, average bench 78% CPU0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	Memory 74.5 1-Core 119 2-Core 233 78% 142 Pts	4-Core 456 8-Core 792 76% 624 Pts	64-Core 1,009 62% 1,009 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3761) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	119% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 185 Parallax 181 125% 173 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 177 Splatting 130 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 133%
AMD R9 295X2 (CrossFire Disabled) 2,533 User benchmarks, average bench 50% AMD(1002 0B2A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1018 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	53.9% Above average	Lighting 65.9 Reflection 60 Parallax 83.9 54% 69.9 fps	MRender 59.3 Gravity 57.7 Splatting 77.3 54% 64.7 fps
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 585GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7750 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1025 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 63 51 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 51 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3308950538	82.8% Excellent	Read 501 Write 402 Mixed 423 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 39.8 4K Mixed 22.5 88% 29.1 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 112 124% 210 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 133%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 190GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	188% Outstanding	Read 1,912 Write 896 Mixed 1,124 288% 1,311 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 89.2 4K Mixed 25.7 133% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 477 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 158 181% 314 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 188% Great: 243%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 87GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20292 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2199 (E8) Unknown 100 100 61059776137 (E9) Unknown 90 0 90	90.3% Outstanding	Read 439 Write 371 Mixed 394 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 91.9 4K Mixed 28.5 125% 48.9 MB/s	DQ Read 294 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 104 126% 221 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 30194840 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1480 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 52107338 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11770 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1392 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 66 49 605618210 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 138 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 55 55 91168 (C2) HDA temperature 34 51 47244640290 (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 117308441763698 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27699937208 (F2) Unknown 100 253 42657469321	101% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 172 Mixed 165 130% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.29 84% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 113%
WD Black 4TB (2016)-$174 9,888 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1TB free Firmware: 81.H0A81 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 139 139 34385363321 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 539 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3805 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 535 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 658 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 658 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 223339151397 (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	74.5% Very good	Read 154 Write 106 Mixed 104 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.42 95% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 343GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 197750602 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4566 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 213281809 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27440 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3786 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 50 50 50 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4296343591 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 53 571998241 (C2) HDA temperature 33 47 42949672993 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 23 197750602 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 3 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 45 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 77244986856699 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3223137728 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2565504494	48.4% Average	Read 90.2 Write 78.6 Mixed 73.7 61% 80.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.41 89% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 68%
USB Flash Disk 0GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 0GB free, PID 2168 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	5.46% Terrible	Read 11.1 Write 7.69 Mixed 9.16 12% 9.31 MB/s	4K Read 6.45 4K Write 0.21 4K Mixed 0.2 38% 2.29 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.46% Great: 5%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x8GB 41,916 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	74.7% Very good	MC Read 19.7 MC Write 45.9 MC Mixed 22.8 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 6.4 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 8.8 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 91.5 44% 91.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 115%

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 104%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING - $275

CPU
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	486x
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	336x
Core i9-7900XIntel $393Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	248x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	382x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	151x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	118x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	81x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	72x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $150Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	63x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	54x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	42x
F4 DDR4 3000 C16 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 85%, 19,774 samples	23x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $1,344

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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16