Asus SABERTOOTH X99

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	79.4% 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	126% 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X99 (all builds)
Memory	9.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160818
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 21 '16 at 23:10
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93.6% Outstanding	Memory 95.2 1-Core 122 2-Core 237 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 797 79% 646 Pts	64-Core 991 61% 991 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36DE) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.4% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 95 Parallax 104 84% 100 fps	MRender 88.1 Gravity 91.4 Splatting 83.3 71% 87.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 1,169 Write 517 Mixed 775 181% 820 MB/s	4K Read 35.3 4K Write 71.3 4K Mixed 37.4 139% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 123 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 53 56% 92.1 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 243%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1.5TB free Firmware: AR15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 25787784 (03) Spinup time 90 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 330 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 55883168 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2138 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 271 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 92 4295032850 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 49 588513315 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 432 (C2) HDA temperature 35 51 51539607587 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 110 99 25787784 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 89 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 89 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 58445914966087 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21130743859 (F2) Unknown 100 253 544812166138
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 8TB 1,740 User benchmarks, average bench 166% 987GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	220% Outstanding	Read 455 Write 312 Mixed 241 250% 336 MB/s	4K Read 2.23 4K Write 6.3 4K Mixed 0.55 271% 3.03 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 220% Great: 262%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB 2,702 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	MC Read 43.7 MC Write 46.8 MC Mixed 39.6 124% 43.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 22.9 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 56.4 71% 56.4 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 115%

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Gaming 82%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	353x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	157x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	127x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	107x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	86x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	73x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	39x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	34x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	33x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	30x
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2800 C16 8x8GBG.SKILLBench 120%, 113 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	21x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $625

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 $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 $40	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