Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	75.2% 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	257% 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	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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190710
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 26 '19 at 23:17
Run Duration	247 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^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 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 102 2-Core 217 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 686 68% 556 Pts	64-Core 852 53% 852 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-$143 230,793 User benchmarks, average bench 68% MSI(1462 3790) CLim: 2175 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 441.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.2% Very good	Lighting 100 Reflection 88.9 Parallax 84 82% 91 fps	MRender 70.6 Gravity 80 Splatting 78.7 63% 76.4 fps
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 73%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 320GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 2262 603 615 621 624 619 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	257% Outstanding	Read 2,345 Write 2,033 Mixed 1,457 SusWrite 891 376% 1,681 MB/s	4K Read 54.9 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 80.1 253% 87.2 MB/s	DQ Read 797 DQ Write 521 DQ Mixed 721 521% 680 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 257% Great: 340%
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB-$400 12,355 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 214GB free Firmware: 1.5 SusWrite @10s intervals: 452 454 438 450 450 451 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Read 435 Write 451 Mixed 320 SusWrite 449 93% 414 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 41 144% 56.3 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 298 DQ Mixed 317 238% 317 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 106%
WD WD6000HLHX-01JJPV0 600GB 6,863 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 559GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 SusWrite @10s intervals: 141 141 144 145 142 143 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Read 149 Write 131 Mixed 91.8 SusWrite 143 94% 129 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1.3 233% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 80%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 776GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 88 90 91 92 91 90 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	51.8% Above average	Read 90 Write 83.7 Mixed 63 SusWrite 90.2 60% 81.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.9 166% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 86%
Intel Raid 5 Volume 6TB 828 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 38 39 43 42 40 42 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Read 286 Write 24 Mixed 27.7 SusWrite 40.7 68% 94.6 MB/s	4K Read 7.5 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.8 411% 2.93 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 159%
WDC WD20 EARS-00MVWB0 2TB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 941GB free, PID 0c31 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 36 37 37 37 37 37 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	17.5% Very poor	Read 36.3 Write 35.7 Mixed 28.2 SusWrite 36.9 47% 34.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.6 68% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 17.5% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2666 C13 4x4GB 1,058 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2666 MHz clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	MC Read 44.7 MC Write 43.5 MC Mixed 41.7 124% 43.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 23.3 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 53.9 74% 53.9 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 113%

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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	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 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 $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