Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	111% 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	36.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	5.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '18 at 16:55
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	77.8% Very good	Memory 89.5 1-Core 117 2-Core 231 83% 146 Pts	4-Core 357 8-Core 584 58% 470 Pts	64-Core 592 37% 592 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 147 Reflection 156 Parallax 145 120% 149 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 143 Splatting 114 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 219GB free Firmware: EXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13855 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2599 (B1) Unknown 89 89 132 (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 38 38 61786 (EB) Unknown 99 99 613 (F1) Unknown 99 99 67299593037	77.4% Very good	Read 484 Write 226 Mixed 352 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 22.2 118% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 78.1 95% 169 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 118%
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 144GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 553 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 180 (94) Unknown 255 255 0 (95) Unknown 255 255 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 8 (AA) Unknown 100 100 9 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 524307 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 255 255 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C2) HDA temperature 71 54 197569413149 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2041 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1871 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1617 (F4) Unknown 100 100 8 (F5) Unknown 100 100 19 (F6) Unknown 100 100 101400	36.9% Below average	Read 344 Write 12.5 Mixed 308 48% 221 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 40.6 4K Mixed 5.81 66% 23.6 MB/s	DQ Read 25.5 DQ Write 152 DQ Mixed 5.54 29% 61.1 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 103534296 (03) Spinup time 92 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11739 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 21539351057 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18163 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4004 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 84 438093348970 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 47 370475030 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 788 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12094 (C2) HDA temperature 22 53 21474836502 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 20 8 103534296 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 165316 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -19073949741419 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3240995301 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1571517942	77.7% Very good	Read 135 Write 136 Mixed 101 92% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.6 109% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 75%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 598GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 233790336 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8030 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 29288359 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9953 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1805 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295163909 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 54 387317783 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 104 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13397 (C2) HDA temperature 23 46 47244640279 (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 -32671816210150 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20286289998 (F2) Unknown 100 253 130312602866	103% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 181 Mixed 164 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 5.35 4K Mixed 0.86 228% 2.34 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/8G 16GB 2,146 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.4% Above average	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 19.5 MC Mixed 17.3 56% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 16.7 SC Mixed 13.3 43% 15.2 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 55.4% 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 58%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	652x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	230x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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