Asus ROG STRIX X99 GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 86.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	74.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91.9% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX X99 GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160628
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 18 '17 at 15:07
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$78 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 117 2-Core 237 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 753 71% 590 Pts	64-Core 930 58% 930 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1394) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.6% Very good	Lighting 95.1 Reflection 99.8 Parallax 90.7 78% 95.2 fps	MRender 85.3 Gravity 86.9 Splatting 81.6 69% 84.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB-$199 9,250 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 286GB free (System drive) Firmware: X21100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 7760 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1811 (A6) Unknown 100 100 16 (A7) Unknown 100 100 62 (A8) Unknown 100 100 241 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1099 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 123 (AE) Unknown 100 100 639 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 44 188979544102 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1034 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 64831 (F1) Unknown 253 253 36281 (F2) Unknown 253 253 28573 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	91.9% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 482 Mixed 469 109% 488 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 20.4 134% 52.8 MB/s	DQ Read 36.1 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 20.1 31% 55.9 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 114%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 89GB free Firmware: X21100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 9422 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2525 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 51 (A8) Unknown 100 100 236 (A9) Unknown 100 100 952 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 140 (AE) Unknown 100 100 983 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 48 206159282215 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1090 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 36526 (F1) Unknown 253 253 17942 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12101 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	92.2% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 482 Mixed 494 111% 495 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 20.2 135% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 36.3 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 19.4 31% 56.8 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 114%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 722GB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 126 126 12904562988 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1234 (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 100 100 2185 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 462 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1238 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1238 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 167504642081 (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	71.4% Very good	Read 108 Write 141 Mixed 162 104% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.24 98% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 108%
WD WD5000AACS-00ZUB0 500GB 19,716 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 444GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 7 (03) Spinup time 158 142 5058 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9370 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19438 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5991 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1555 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 137 137 191008 (C2) HDA temperature 116 95 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43.7% Average	Read 78.2 Write 73.7 Mixed 77 58% 76.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.41 113% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 49%
Seagate Desktop HDD 1TB (2013) 2,070 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 13GB free Firmware: CC92 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 84 199664057 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14855 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 14520881 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9862 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3167 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2592 (BC) Unknown 100 97 403750060393 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 69 42 228155326495 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 962 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13817 (C2) HDA temperature 31 58 42949672991 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 99 199664057 (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 43568148259486 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2105922276 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2818862132	60.4% Good	Read 106 Write 104 Mixed 96.1 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.58 129% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$299 20,912 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	77.1% Very good	MC Read 31.9 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 25.2 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 20.7 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 91%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X99 GAMING - $300

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	522x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	256x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	242x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	282x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	173x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	154x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	41x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	41x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	21x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	20x
CT8G4DFS824A.C8FHD1 2x8GBCrucialBench 71%, 3,272 samples	18x

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Total price: $887

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 $184	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