Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	189% 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

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

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '17 at 13:01
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	1%

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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 i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 95.1 1-Core 110 2-Core 218 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 673 68% 552 Pts	64-Core 833 52% 833 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 153 Parallax 131 116% 142 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 137 Splatting 113 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 371GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6349 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1565 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 71 53 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 19 (EB) Unknown 99 99 851 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11396450848	96.8% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 355 Mixed 342 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 43.8 4K Write 67.7 4K Mixed 28.6 139% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 72.9 117% 228 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 126%
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 297GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01F0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	189% Outstanding	Read 1,833 Write 888 Mixed 1,201 288% 1,307 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 39.9 160% 62.6 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 135 142% 237 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 189% Great: 230%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$122 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 184GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4428 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 814 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 56 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 90 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7916761439	92.3% Outstanding	Read 378 Write 420 Mixed 136 69% 311 MB/s	4K Read 41.6 4K Write 81.6 4K Mixed 34.5 150% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 1.11 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 0.61 42% 93.4 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 133%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 927GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 171 168 4450 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2190 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8515 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2167 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1455 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 734 (C2) HDA temperature 115 101 32 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	74.3% Very good	Read 131 Write 128 Mixed 122 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 1.18 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.49 148% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 76%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$60 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 691GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 19 (03) Spinup time 165 162 6750 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4239 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8408 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2030 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 686 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 153 153 143837 (C2) HDA temperature 123 107 27 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	44.1% Average	Read 65 Write 88.5 Mixed 55.7 52% 69.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.15 69% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 1,409 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 42.5 MC Write 40.8 MC Mixed 37.3 115% 40.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 14.8 SC Mixed 14.2 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 56.8 70% 56.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 104%

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

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Gaming 91%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 79%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	438x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	384x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	297x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	105x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	101x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	30x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $1,176

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16