Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	105% 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	225% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Very high background CPU (100%). 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, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	21.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 27 '18 at 18:47
Run Duration	236 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$78 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 112 2-Core 244 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 745 74% 602 Pts	64-Core 907 56% 907 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 150 Parallax 138 112% 142 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 131 Splatting 109 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 764GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13817 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 332 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 73 48 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 60 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1013506337	97.7% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 411 Mixed 426 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 36.7 4K Write 72.6 4K Mixed 28.9 131% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 106 128% 225 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 133%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 275GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	225% Outstanding	Read 2,152 Write 1,434 Mixed 1,507 376% 1,698 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 88.2 4K Mixed 27.7 137% 50.6 MB/s	DQ Read 211 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 87 110% 194 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 225% Great: 283%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 172GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26822 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 849 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 70 47 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 328 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8538095101	88.6% Excellent	Read 502 Write 346 Mixed 340 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 40.2 4K Write 51.4 4K Mixed 25.5 121% 39 MB/s	DQ Read 299 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 67 102% 194 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 126%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 108GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18185 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 181 (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 73 44 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 163 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27299114069	90.4% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 410 Mixed 403 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 74.9 4K Mixed 27.2 128% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 37.3 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 22 54% 106 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 133%
WD Se 4TB-$90 2,519 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 143 10783 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 956 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14539 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 409 (10) Unknown 6 194 117472855679 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 86 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 869 (C2) HDA temperature 117 103 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	70.6% Very good	Read 120 Write 126 Mixed 121 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.28 112% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 100%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 879GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 101 98 7908 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 363 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12738 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 321 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 154 154 138384 (C2) HDA temperature 121 96 26 (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	68.5% Good	Read 111 Write 127 Mixed 114 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.17 79% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 2,108 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	MC Read 43.3 MC Write 54.7 MC Mixed 42.5 134% 46.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 20.8 54% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 60.3 66% 60.3 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 115%

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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 $134	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