Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 79.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	8.34% 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	90.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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	9.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 720 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 02 '16 at 18:06
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2670-$53 4,803 User benchmarks, average bench 67% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.1% Very good	Memory 94.4 1-Core 89.4 2-Core 180 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 344 8-Core 671 60% 508 Pts	64-Core 864 54% 864 Pts
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6700 4,583 User benchmarks, average bench 8% PwrHis(1787 2313) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	8.34% Terrible	Lighting 10.9 Reflection 9.04 Parallax 10.9 9% 10.3 fps	MRender 7.24 Gravity 9.47 Splatting 9.39 7% 8.7 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 8.34% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 95GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q 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 99 99 3905 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1312 (B1) Unknown 98 98 27 (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 55 44 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 764 (EB) Unknown 99 99 246 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12921504463	90.1% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 410 Mixed 417 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 58.7 4K Mixed 36.5 119% 40.7 MB/s	DQ Read 210 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 76.4 82% 139 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 124%
WD Purple 1TB (2014)-$40 18,782 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 848GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 138 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 96 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 132 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 74 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 61 (C2) HDA temperature 110 107 33 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	80.7% Excellent	Read 143 Write 138 Mixed 129 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.29 103% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 85%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 40GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 166 2283 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1919 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7855 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1628 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 641 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1311 (C2) HDA temperature 109 91 34 (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 3 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	84.1% Excellent	Read 160 Write 133 Mixed 130 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.28 113% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C10D3/4G 12GB 63 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	MC Read 34.4 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 26.5 84% 29.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 12 SC Mixed 11.5 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 58.8 68% 58.8 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 59%

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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	650x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	229x

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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	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