Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89.4% 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	263% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (48%). 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	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150410
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 18 '17 at 12:12
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	48%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	77.4% Very good	Memory 91 1-Core 80.5 2-Core 180 69% 117 Pts	4-Core 344 8-Core 648 59% 496 Pts	64-Core 964 60% 964 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	89.4% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 142 Parallax 158 87% 136 fps	MRender 79.2 Gravity 158 Splatting 106 94% 114 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 361GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1550 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 175 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 60 43 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 22 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8940469696	103% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 409 Mixed 210 83% 376 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 82.1 4K Mixed 38.6 157% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 112 115% 189 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 298GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	263% Outstanding	Read 2,308 Write 1,347 Mixed 1,367 369% 1,674 MB/s	4K Read 51.5 4K Write 133 4K Mixed 43.4 204% 76.1 MB/s	DQ Read 702 DQ Write 543 DQ Mixed 252 290% 499 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 263% Great: 254%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 284GB free Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5642426 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9603546884640 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1203 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 158 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 49 47247851554 (C2) HDA temperature 34 49 47247851554 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5642426 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5642426 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5642426 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 42949672961 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27840 (EA) Unknown 0 0 17150 (F1) Unknown 0 0 17150 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19326	58.1% Above average	Read 513 Write 217 Mixed 233 70% 321 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 17 4K Mixed 13.9 66% 18.9 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 71.1 DQ Mixed 46.6 51% 86.6 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 65%
Ocz-vertex3 LT 240GB 144 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 47GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 84 4272837 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 -105063489971141 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2871 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 168 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 1232 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4272837 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4272837 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4272837 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 51003 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15738 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15738 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18381	41.6% Average	Read 437 Write 105 Mixed 126 48% 222 MB/s	4K Read 7.07 4K Write 49.5 4K Mixed 5.89 44% 20.8 MB/s	DQ Read 119 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 47.2 53% 90.6 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 87%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 139GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 159020120 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1396 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 55902217 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10266 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1202 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 59 555614241 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 41876 (C2) HDA temperature 33 41 47244640289 (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 72249939863383 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14479394957 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1427798256527	84.1% Excellent	Read 140 Write 152 Mixed 77.8 91% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 5.37 4K Mixed 1.05 255% 2.45 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C14 4x4GB 11,542 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 44 MC Write 39.9 MC Mixed 36.3 114% 40.1 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 14.7 SC Mixed 18.2 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 65.7 61% 65.7 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 99%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,228x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	170x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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: 66% - Good

Total price: $763

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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