Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 78.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	119% 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	240% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 00:57
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	78.6% Very good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 103 2-Core 208 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 674 65% 536 Pts	64-Core 802 50% 802 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 88%

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: 388.13 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	119% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 189 Parallax 195 128% 181 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 164 Splatting 126 114% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$249 18,356 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 932GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	240% Outstanding	Read 2,283 Write 1,730 Mixed 1,801 431% 1,938 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 27.7 135% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 25.9 DQ Write 86.9 DQ Mixed 19.6 26% 44.1 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 240% Great: 363%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 104GB free Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 36938 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 219 (B1) Unknown 99 99 43 (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 75 59 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 102 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19213268081	78.1% Very good	Read 519 Write 492 Mixed 507 113% 506 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 52.6 4K Mixed 18.3 85% 31 MB/s	DQ Read 26.7 DQ Write 59.7 DQ Mixed 17.1 20% 34.5 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 124%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 931GB free Firmware: 04.06A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 611 (03) Spinup time 195 191 3225 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3146 (05) Reallocated sector count 180 180 905 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 24964 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 212 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 118 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3027 (C2) HDA temperature 123 107 27 (C4) Reallocation count 1 1 820 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 199 47 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 199 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 173 0	108% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 186 Mixed 178 139% 185 MB/s	4K Read 1.69 4K Write 3.21 4K Mixed 0.45 179% 1.78 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 117%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2800 C16 1x8GB 36 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1 of 8 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	37.2% Below average	MC Read 15.2 MC Write 10.5 MC Mixed 10.9 35% 12.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 11.2 SC Mixed 12.4 34% 11.9 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 44%

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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	1,232x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $98Bench 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: 67% - Good

Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16