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Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9.8% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	70.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131224
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 07 '21 at 16:52
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3960X-$265 2,165 User benchmarks, average bench 78% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 90.4 1-Core 99.2 2-Core 198 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 384 8-Core 566 59% 475 Pts	64-Core 713 44% 713 Pts
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% EVGA(3842 1557) 1GB CLim: 981 MHz, MLim: 1128 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	9.8% Terrible	Lighting 11.2 Reflection 16.4 Parallax 11.3 9% 13 fps	MRender 17.3 Gravity 12.5 Splatting 11.8 11% 13.9 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.8% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 1TB-$140 602,853 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 437GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT04B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 242 244 243 243 244 243 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	70.4% Very good	Read 255 Write 243 Mixed 243 SusWrite 243 56% 246 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 53.4 4K Mixed 35.9 116% 39 MB/s	DQ Read 204 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 198 149% 198 MB/s
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 133%
Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 500GB-$59 47,815 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 466GB free Firmware: JP2OA25C SusWrite @10s intervals: 131 134 133 132 135 135 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	Read 130 Write 136 Mixed 65.3 SusWrite 134 85% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.6 124% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 74%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$29 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 72GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B SusWrite @10s intervals: 63 62 61 60 61 63 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	38.9% Below average	Read 73.8 Write 71.9 Mixed 42.1 SusWrite 61.6 46% 62.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 145% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,961 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	96.5% Outstanding	MC Read 39.9 MC Write 38.8 MC Mixed 35 108% 37.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 12.8 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 96%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical SABERTOOTH X79 Builds (Compare 1,876 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 77%

Battleship

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 66%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	469x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	401x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	315x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	109x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	109x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	107x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	80x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	66x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	64x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	24x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $890

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Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $135
Intel Core i5-13600K $210	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $389	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $75
Intel Core i5-12400F $111	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $370