Asrock X99 Taichi

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	76% 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	81.6% 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	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 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.

Motherboard	Asrock X99 Taichi (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160804
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 20 '16 at 15:37
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	JPN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel 0000 267 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 20 cores, 40 threads Base clock 2 GHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	68% Good	Memory 79.7 1-Core 82.1 2-Core 161 63% 108 Pts	4-Core 304 8-Core 606 54% 455 Pts	64-Core 1,789 111% 1,789 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7306 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76% Very good	Lighting 104 Reflection 82.8 Parallax 81.6 85% 89.6 fps	MRender 79 Gravity 72.5 Splatting 65.5 58% 72.3 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 175GB free (System drive) Firmware: U210 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 128 100 128 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 728 (A6) Unknown 100 100 18 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 70 (A9) Unknown 100 100 32 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 53 (AE) Unknown 100 100 137 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 206158430245 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8394 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3059 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2564	81.6% Excellent	Read 464 Write 413 Mixed 449 99% 442 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 99 4K Mixed 5.33 111% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 51.2 DQ Write 291 DQ Mixed 33.9 66% 125 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 86%
Corsair Force 3 60GB 4,789 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 49GB free Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 133899900436251 (0C) Power cycle count 80 80 20634 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 55 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14287 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12390 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12390 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12584	36.8% Below average	Read 201 Write 61.1 Mixed 91.8 26% 118 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 60.7 4K Mixed 7.42 80% 31 MB/s	DQ Read 60.7 DQ Write 61.4 DQ Mixed 23.5 28% 48.5 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 52%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 181 5833 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 92 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 199 13 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1362 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 79 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 43 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 651 (C2) HDA temperature 122 101 28 (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	85.5% Excellent	Read 143 Write 154 Mixed 144 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.62 4K Mixed 0.3 120% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 96%
WD WD7502ABYS-02A6B0 750GB 1,121 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2TB free Firmware: 03.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 1975 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 470 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 37 37 46354 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 394 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 156 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 313 (C2) HDA temperature 119 84 31 (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
Poor: 30% Great: 63%
WD WD7502ABYS-02A6B0 750GB 1,121 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2TB free Firmware: 03.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 1950 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 476 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 37 37 46642 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 400 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 162 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 313 (C2) HDA temperature 118 90 32 (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
Poor: 30% Great: 63%
WD WD7502ABYS-02A6B0 750GB 1,121 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2TB free Firmware: 03.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 1975 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 145 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 43784 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 143 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 100 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 44 (C2) HDA temperature 119 88 31 (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
Poor: 30% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB 12,182 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	MC Read 58.2 MC Write 47.6 MC Mixed 39.8 139% 48.5 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 14.1 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 81.2 49% 81.2 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 99%

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Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asrock X99 Taichi

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	154x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	101x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	55x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	51x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	41x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	19x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	17x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	17x

RAM
CL15-15-15 D4-2133 2x8GBUnknownBench 68%, 1,169 samples	12x
M378A1G43EB1-CPB 4x8GBSamsungBench 78%, 415 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	8x

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Value: 121% - Outstanding

Total price: $279

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16