Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	12.4% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	43.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 24 '17 at 19:49
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4930K-$88 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 94.7 2-Core 187 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 674 68% 552 Pts	64-Core 801 50% 801 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2 (SLI Disabled) 107 User benchmarks, average bench 10% XFX(1682 2370) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	12.4% Very poor	Lighting 19.3 Reflection 9.62 Parallax 3.66 16% 10.8 fps	MRender 8.38 Gravity 7.73 Splatting 6.48 6% 7.53 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 12.4% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.8.2a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16930416 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 112364934412895 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2277 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 930 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 54 1009320853532 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16930416 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16930416 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16930416 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21031 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16610 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16610 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13907	43.2% Average	Read 173 Write 123 Mixed 153 33% 150 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 78 4K Mixed 11.3 85% 36.1 MB/s	DQ Read 24.1 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 8.86 34% 70.2 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 80%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$185 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 153 148 11316 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1572 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10746 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1248 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1484 (C2) HDA temperature 119 109 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 200 200 0	85.4% Excellent	Read 153 Write 144 Mixed 140 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.84 4K Mixed 0.25 104% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 98%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	MC Read 37.6 MC Write 34.1 MC Mixed 33.2 100% 35 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 14.5 SC Mixed 13.3 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 63%

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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	435x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	297x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	101x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 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: $811

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16