Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


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 79.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	65.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	57.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20131224
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 12 '16 at 15:20
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

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 i7-4930K-$90 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	Memory 89.2 1-Core 94.6 2-Core 205 74% 130 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 631 62% 505 Pts	64-Core 759 47% 759 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-Ti-$410 30,815 User benchmarks, average bench 53% Nvidia(10DE 1051) 3GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	65.3% Good	Lighting 92 Reflection 49.7 Parallax 60.3 75% 67.3 fps	MRender 69.3 Gravity 64.2 Splatting 42.7 46% 58.8 fps
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 59%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$117 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4533 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1389 (B1) Unknown 99 99 35 (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 72 62 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 823 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16566401709	57.6% Above average	Read 364 Write 158 Mixed 229 55% 250 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 44 4K Mixed 31 97% 32.5 MB/s	DQ Read 1.77 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 0.89 19% 41.6 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 124%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 771GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 190266728 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2543 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 42924339 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1740 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 6 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437649434 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 810 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11620 (C2) HDA temperature 26 49 30064771098 (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 117544664964021 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18178427728 (F2) Unknown 100 253 25509625878	107% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 189 Mixed 142 128% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 5.46 4K Mixed 0.9 235% 2.39 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2133 4x4GB 142 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	MC Read 37 MC Write 34.1 MC Mixed 33.8 100% 35 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 13.9 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 68.2 59% 68.2 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 120%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	434x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	100x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	61x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $812

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