Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (21st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 79 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	76.8% 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	60.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	2103 x 1183 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '18 at 19:15
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	52%

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PC Performing below expectations (21^st 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 Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	69.4% Good	Memory 83.8 1-Core 82.4 2-Core 162 65% 109 Pts	4-Core 297 8-Core 484 48% 390 Pts	64-Core 642 40% 642 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3703) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.8% Very good	Lighting 90.9 Reflection 115 Parallax 101 74% 102 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 102 Splatting 101 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 51GB free Firmware: EXT0 Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	46.1% Average	Read 302 Write 110 Mixed 160 42% 191 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 20.7 4K Mixed 16.2 71% 21 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 80.9 DQ Mixed 53.9 61% 107 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 118%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3 Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	60.3% Good	Read 461 Write 127 Mixed 174 55% 254 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 57.6 4K Mixed 15.1 93% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 43.6 64% 121 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 83%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1TB free Firmware: 0A80 Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	56.6% Above average	Read 98.4 Write 98.7 Mixed 99.2 74% 98.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.2 79% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DHX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 372 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	MC Read 14.2 MC Write 13.1 MC Mixed 12.5 38% 13.3 GB/s	SC Read 6.8 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 7.2 22% 7.67 GB/s	Latency 73.7 54% 73.7 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 65%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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 $130Bench 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 $273	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 $179	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