Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


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 83.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	95.7% 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	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 (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	17.4 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111003
Uptime	2.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 31 '17 at 16:45
Run Duration	210 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	17%

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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 4,060 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	83.1% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 100 2-Core 196 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 395 8-Core 594 61% 495 Pts	64-Core 715 44% 715 Pts
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 114 Parallax 99.6 90% 108 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14905 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1587 (B1) Unknown 97 97 147 (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 57 41 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 172 (F1) Unknown 99 99 154333084847	95.7% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 487 Mixed 512 114% 508 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 89.8 4K Mixed 26.8 133% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 36.3 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 25.9 47% 88.2 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Series 500GB 7,390 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 97GB free Firmware: DXT09B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17608 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1940 (B1) Unknown 96 96 47 (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 64 43 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 474 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33064302147	53.3% Above average	Read 353 Write 165 Mixed 217 54% 245 MB/s	4K Read 24.3 4K Write 43.2 4K Mixed 13.3 77% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 33.8 57% 113 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 89%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 165 6516 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2024 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 28650 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 375 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 58 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 128 128 217760 (C2) HDA temperature 113 93 37 (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	64.2% Good	Read 120 Write 104 Mixed 95.1 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.19 77% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 67%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 236GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 133 4150 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11775 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 38039 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3456 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 727 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11047 (C2) HDA temperature 109 86 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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	62% Good	Read 117 Write 99.4 Mixed 114 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.32 91% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 69%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 228GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 230 223 8500 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1942 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 9 9 66724 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 460 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 112 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1765 (C2) HDA temperature 107 99 43 (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	44.6% Average	Read 79.9 Write 75 Mixed 80 59% 78.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.43 115% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 44.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DHX DDR3 1600 C9 6x4GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 6 of 8 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 26 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 13.4 SC Mixed 13.2 40% 14.1 GB/s	Latency 62 64% 62 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 74%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

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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	62x

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 $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 $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 $40	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