Asus PRIME X299-A

Performance Results


Gaming 132% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 126% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 99.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	131% 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	134% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME X299-A (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171229
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 26 '18 at 08:15
Run Duration	215 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7820X-$375 28,524 User benchmarks, average bench 80% LGA 2066 R4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.8% Outstanding	Memory 83.3 1-Core 156 2-Core 308 98% 182 Pts	4-Core 623 8-Core 1,127 105% 875 Pts	64-Core 1,147 71% 1,147 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6598) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 205 Parallax 192 148% 193 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 176 Splatting 132 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D 1TB-$85 16,039 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 931GB free Firmware: 30WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (A5) Unknown 100 100 65536 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 82 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 587 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 39 167505559582 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	87.1% Excellent	Read 490 Write 348 Mixed 336 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 68.2 4K Mixed 22.4 121% 42.5 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 49.6 89% 179 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 121%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 466GB free Firmware: 3B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 819 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 272 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 66 62 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 854295117	108% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 417 Mixed 421 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 84.5 4K Mixed 43.2 163% 56.4 MB/s	DQ Read 297 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 120 131% 220 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 134%
Mushkin MKNSSDRE500GB 500GB 1,852 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 466GB free Firmware: 4D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 28 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 535 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 42 (A3) Unknown 100 100 19 (A4) Unknown 100 100 674 (A5) Unknown 100 100 8 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10706 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12759 (F5) Unknown 100 100 21568	86.2% Excellent	Read 515 Write 384 Mixed 439 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 16.7 4K Write 92.3 4K Mixed 22.5 103% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 64.3 101% 191 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 103%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB (2017)-$135 28,136 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 179GB free (System drive) Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Read 1,538 Write 466 Mixed 613 190% 872 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 83.4 4K Mixed 13.9 124% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 43.6 DQ Write 335 DQ Mixed 12.9 62% 130 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 144%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 931GB free Firmware: 1D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 191 (03) Spinup time 178 169 4075 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7215 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11083 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4546 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 699 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6515 (C2) HDA temperature 114 100 33 (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 198 197 553	96.7% Outstanding	Read 207 Write 130 Mixed 131 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 0.41 144% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 96.7% Great: 76%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 422GB free, PID 1078 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	36.4% Below average	Read 86.7 Write 78.7 Mixed 76.7 102% 80.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 36.4% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB-$113 87,239 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	MC Read 36.3 MC Write 66.4 MC Mixed 35.4 132% 46 GB/s	SC Read 7.7 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 10.6 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 74.6 54% 74.6 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 120%

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Workstation 93%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME X299-A

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	374x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	217x
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	148x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	192x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	93x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	57x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	49x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x

RAM
BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 4x4GBCrucialBench 82%, 497 samples	53x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	32x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	25x

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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $744

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