Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (95th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 5 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 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	10.3% 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	25.6% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	22.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120803
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 28 '17 at 17:03
Run Duration	352 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 102 2-Core 198 77% 131 Pts	4-Core 401 8-Core 608 63% 505 Pts	64-Core 759 47% 759 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% EVGA(3842 1556) 1GB CLim: 951 MHz, MLim: 1089 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	10.3% Very poor	Lighting 11.6 Reflection 13.7 Parallax 9.84 10% 11.7 fps	MRender 15.9 Gravity 12.1 Splatting 15.8 12% 14.6 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.3% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 125GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5B0Q Relative performance (0^th percentile)	25.6% Poor	Read 424 Write 8.82 Mixed 23 32% 152 MB/s	4K Read 5.5 4K Write 11.9 4K Mixed 7.12 24% 8.18 MB/s	DQ Read 7.69 DQ Write 20.9 DQ Mixed 20.6 14% 16.4 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 116%
Corsair CMFSSD-1 128GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 43GB free Firmware: 2.1 Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 16% Great: 51%
Seagate BUP BL 4TB 111 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2.5TB free, PID ab1e Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	56% Above average	Read 121 Write 96.3 Mixed 49.6 105% 89.1 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 5.58 4K Mixed 0.5 210% 2.37 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 57%
Maxtor 6 H500F0 500GB 105GB free, PID 0718 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	22.9% Poor	Read 28.1 Write 26.2 Mixed 26.5 34% 27 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 4.23 4K Mixed 0.3 156% 1.72 MB/s

ST316081 2AS 160GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 75GB free, PID 2338 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	15% Very poor	Read 33.6 Write 29.1 Mixed 21.3 34% 28 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.27 52% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 15% Great: 15%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1600 CL9 Series 4x8GB 1,306 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 41.7 MC Write 40.1 MC Mixed 36.3 112% 39.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 14.5 SC Mixed 12.9 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 58.5 68% 58.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 75%

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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	297x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	100x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 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: 77% - Very good

Total price: $807

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16