Gigabyte GA-X99-Designare EX-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.4% 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	253% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

System	Gigabyte Default string
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X99-Designare EX-CF (all builds)
Memory	60.2 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160831
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 26 '17 at 18:26
Run Duration	274 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6950X-$499 6,135 User benchmarks, average bench 87% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 235 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 820 75% 630 Pts	64-Core 1,458 90% 1,458 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 114 Parallax 102 91% 109 fps	MRender 96.5 Gravity 103 Splatting 89.8 78% 96.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 309GB free Firmware: 96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3630 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 403 (64) Unknown 100 100 851904 (65) Unknown 100 100 204864 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 125 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2670 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 100 180389543963 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1371 (EA) Unknown 100 100 704 (F1) Unknown 100 100 986 (F2) Unknown 100 100 643 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	66.3% Good	Read 482 Write 272 Mixed 276 76% 343 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 47.1 4K Mixed 11.3 74% 27 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 31.2 70% 147 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 92%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 279GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	253% Outstanding	Read 2,744 Write 1,330 Mixed 1,457 405% 1,844 MB/s	4K Read 33.6 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 40.6 160% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 219 DQ Mixed 121 136% 237 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 253% Great: 254%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 108781224 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3261 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 51 386742721836 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7960 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1155 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 4299292738 (BD) vendor-specific 84 84 16 (BE) vendor-specific 70 46 505151518 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 680 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10517 (C2) HDA temperature 30 54 51539607582 (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 219043338474 (F1) Unknown 100 253 65135840468 (F2) Unknown 100 253 67752408785	106% Outstanding	Read 196 Write 175 Mixed 168 135% 179 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.3 90% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC4G 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 88 85 63019080 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3685 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 2432 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 8842395903 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15669 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2357 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 936 (BC) Unknown 100 97 253406937183 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 521994271 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 464 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 62649 (C2) HDA temperature 31 51 38654705695 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 1 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 1 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -138147623062167 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -49648003174669 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -47607380424721
Poor: 56% Great: 113%
G-raid with Thunderbolt 8TB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 151% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0 Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	152% Outstanding	Read 280 Write 250 Mixed 227 189% 252 MB/s	4K Read 2.47 4K Write 2.71 4K Mixed 0.65 225% 1.94 MB/s
Poor: 107% ↑ This bench: 152% Great: 198%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 683GB free Firmware: 0A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 174 6033 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4272 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8181 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1834 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 818 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 184 184 50302 (C2) HDA temperature 122 94 28 (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	62.5% Good	Read 118 Write 99.4 Mixed 110 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.17 97% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 83%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 750GB (2010)-$70 21,848 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 610GB free Firmware: DEM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 66872 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8090 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 94225247 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12220 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2382 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 13 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 43 69157191706 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 17 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 63665 (C2) HDA temperature 26 57 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 111 99 66872 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -23660974827724 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1536657291 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3856920264 (FE) Unknown 1 1 1	60.8% Good	Read 109 Write 102 Mixed 78.7 72% 96.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 5.44 4K Mixed 0.24 153% 2.1 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 62%
Seagate ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD 2TB 50,772 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 136GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 91 90 2814 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7795 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3894 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3289 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1127 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 146 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 197569216537 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 592 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 2 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 134090 (F1) Unknown 95 91 6834533 (F2) Unknown 93 92 10466435	39.6% Below average	Read 65.7 Write 71.8 Mixed 79.6 55% 72.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.33 93% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39.6% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D240FSE.16FA 4x16GB 58 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 4 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	MC Read 54.6 MC Write 52.6 MC Mixed 47 147% 51.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 20.2 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 129%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 96%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-Designare EX-CF

CPU
Core i7-6950XIntel $499Bench 87%, 6,135 samples	56x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	52x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	43x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	27x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	10x

SSD
SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $69Bench 205%, 12,601 samples	15x
Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2019)WD $37Bench 244%, 109,999 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
F4 DDR4 3200 C16 8x8GBG.SKILLBench 122%, 173 samples	17x
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 95%, 1,053 samples	14x
F4 DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 92%, 6,789 samples	9x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $968

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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

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