Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 121% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 110% UFO


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 an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	133% 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	95.6% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170113
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	May 25 '17 at 00:05
Run Duration	541 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	18%

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 i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 93.9 1-Core 119 2-Core 238 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 764 75% 612 Pts	64-Core 967 60% 967 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 191 Parallax 174 156% 186 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 166 Splatting 122 111% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 228GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24159 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 146 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 59 50 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 118 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15342663596	95.6% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 353 Mixed 354 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 69.4 4K Mixed 28.3 138% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 98.1 123% 222 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 2701272 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13487 (05) Reallocated sector count 85 85 11032 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10197520 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26457 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 152 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 61 51 707067943 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 72 72 57763 (C2) HDA temperature 39 49 85899345959 (C5) Current pending sector count 96 96 800 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 96 96 800 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -20199231184559 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24115709485 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12610949379	96.4% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 151 Mixed 153 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.25 73% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 62458272 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12211 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 23625162 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26618 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 142 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 62 53 639828006 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 63 63 75363 (C2) HDA temperature 38 47 81604378662 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 16 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 16 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -71094593642179 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7206148359 (F2) Unknown 100 253 20280322567	88.5% Excellent	Read 167 Write 142 Mixed 144 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.28 85% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 113%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 245GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5520 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 8654 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 52363 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1369 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 55 639828004 (C2) HDA temperature 63 54 639828005 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6133331 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 64482 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	42.8% Average	Read 69.7 Write 79.2 Mixed 69.5 55% 72.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.45 111% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 62%
WDC WD20 EARS-00MVWB0 2TB 82 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 899GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	40.1% Average	Read 95.6 Write 91.3 Mixed 78.1 112% 88.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.16 76% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 46%
WD My Passport 0827 1TB 5,337 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 557GB free, PID 0827 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	18.6% Very poor	Read 41.2 Write 27.7 Mixed 27.5 39% 32.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.22 81% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 45%
WDC WD20 EARS-00MVWB0 2TB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 490GB free, PID 2567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	45.1% Average	Read 93.4 Write 114 Mixed 17.7 91% 74.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 45%
ST310003 33AS 1TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 95GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	18.3% Very poor	Read 39.1 Write 38.7 Mixed 29.2 45% 35.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.36 60% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 18.3% Great: 48%
Generic STORAGE DEVICE-A 8GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 6GB free, PID 0716 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	8.66% Terrible	Read 18.7 Write 4.07 Mixed 2.49 8% 8.43 MB/s	4K Read 4.53 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.98 94% 2.27 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 8.66% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 1,053 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2400 MHz clocked @ 2448 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 41.3 MC Write 37.2 MC Mixed 42.8 116% 40.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 21.1 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 60 67% 60 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 136%

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Desktop 82%

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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 $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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: 68% - Good

Total price: $744

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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