Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '17 at 05:00
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	COL-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 110 2-Core 219 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 687 68% 555 Pts	64-Core 824 51% 824 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4993) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	70.2% Very good	Lighting 105 Reflection 114 Parallax 103 86% 107 fps	MRender 32.3 Gravity 51.8 Splatting 58.6 40% 47.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: BBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11172167 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -40364102641990 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2225 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 517 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 48 77312557091 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 77312557091 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11172167 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11172167 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11172167 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14224 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7449 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7449 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9765	74.4% Very good	Read 488 Write 187 Mixed 224 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 18.8 117% 49 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 63 88% 163 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 712GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 80 92954933 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5876 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 259563258 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11752 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4585 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 98 148 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 572260383 (C2) HDA temperature 31 49 55834574879 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 22 92954933 (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 -76008036212307 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1831507251 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3370690906	57% Above average	Read 105 Write 93.5 Mixed 103 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.41 93% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 2,134 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	MC Read 34.9 MC Write 29.4 MC Mixed 28 88% 30.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 15.6 SC Mixed 13 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $240

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	434x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	60x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $716

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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