Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	0.18% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	30.8% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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 (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	20 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131015
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '17 at 12:02
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (49^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 4,885 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 87.3 1-Core 99.6 2-Core 191 73% 126 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 582 60% 482 Pts	64-Core 728 45% 728 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE 202 User benchmarks, average bench 0% Gigabyte(1458 341F) 128MB Ram: 128MB, Driver: 309.8 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	0.18% Terrible	Lighting 0.33 Reflection 0.31 Parallax 0.22 0% 0.29 fps
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 0.18% Great: 0%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Performance3 SSD 128GB 156 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2103 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1791 (B2) Unknown 100 100 33 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 224 (BE) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 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 0	30.8% Below average	Read 325 Write 142 Mixed 196 49% 221 MB/s	4K Read 8.29 4K Write 14.3 4K Mixed 5.71 28% 9.43 MB/s	DQ Read 8.86 DQ Write 35.7 DQ Mixed 14.9 14% 19.8 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 30.8% Great: 54%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 14 (03) Spinup time 179 172 4016 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4510 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5802 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1457 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 161 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 64331 (C2) HDA temperature 121 99 26 (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	59.1% Above average	Read 100 Write 106 Mixed 105 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.23 81% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 84%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 41GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 160 153 8983 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9029 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15769 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3217 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 402 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 123 123 231044 (C2) HDA temperature 117 92 35 (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	39.2% Below average	Read 70.6 Write 65.8 Mixed 60.1 49% 65.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.16 54% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 991988 (996988) 6x4GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 6 of 8 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	82.1% Excellent	MC Read 34 MC Write 31.7 MC Mixed 29.3 90% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 13 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 70.2 57% 70.2 ns
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 84%

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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	99x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	60x

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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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