Asus X99-A/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


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 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	117% 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	258% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150515
Uptime	17.3 Days
Run Date	Aug 27 '17 at 08:23
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

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 i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 94 2-Core 216 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 371 8-Core 620 60% 495 Pts	64-Core 817 51% 817 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	117% Outstanding	Lighting 156 Reflection 178 Parallax 183 127% 172 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 165 Splatting 118 109% 135 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 332GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	258% Outstanding	Read 1,940 Write 1,716 Mixed 1,569 388% 1,742 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 56.9 204% 74.1 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 125 138% 236 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 258% Great: 353%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 229GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 27777 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 471 (B1) Unknown 93 93 79 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 58 36 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 383 (F1) Unknown 99 99 46798680484	85.1% Excellent	Read 501 Write 345 Mixed 355 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 51.4 4K Mixed 23.3 114% 37.4 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 80.4 100% 180 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 118%
WD Blue 6TB (2015)-$215 8,416 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 202 198 8858 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1437 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10595 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 26 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 310966 (C2) HDA temperature 114 102 38 (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	80.1% Excellent	Read 144 Write 135 Mixed 130 103% 136 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 2.49 4K Mixed 0.29 121% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 97%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 942 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 38.3 MC Write 41.4 MC Mixed 36.7 111% 38.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 20.1 51% 18 GB/s	Latency 62.4 64% 62.4 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 127%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	758x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	194x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	91x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	118x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	113x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	39x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	43x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	27x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GBCorsair $140Bench 87%, 4,858 samples	26x

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Value: 91% - Outstanding

Total price: $371

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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