Asus Rampage III Extreme

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 88.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	57.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Rampage III Extreme (all builds)
Memory	20.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111003
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 03 '16 at 22:20
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon X5660 6,950 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1366, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 4.1 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 111 2-Core 221 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 720 71% 580 Pts	64-Core 857 53% 857 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% Asus(1043 0474) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 21.19.151.3 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.7% Good	Lighting 81.8 Reflection 68.6 Parallax 105 67% 85.1 fps	MRender 67.3 Gravity 64.6 Splatting 85.8 61% 72.6 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 48GB free Firmware: 505A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3755326 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 112313394790867 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 27 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 26 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 70 98788835358 (C2) HDA temperature 30 70 98788835358 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3755326 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3755326 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3755326 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 758 (EA) Unknown 0 0 336 (F1) Unknown 0 0 336 (F2) Unknown 0 0 95	55.9% Above average	Read 355 Write 141 Mixed 183 50% 226 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 58 4K Mixed 13.6 93% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 46 61% 111 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 73%
Intel 730 Series 240GB-$250 8,417 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: L201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 480 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 36 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (AF) Unknown 100 100 8590721683 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 73 454426651 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 27 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 21247 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 41 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 51 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 2013 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21247 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12321	57.7% Above average	Read 311 Write 237 Mixed 280 62% 276 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 56.7 4K Mixed 18.7 97% 34.6 MB/s	DQ Read 28.6 DQ Write 62.4 DQ Mixed 16.7 21% 35.9 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 95%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 204GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1539 (03) Spinup time 176 172 2158 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 752 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12110 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 494 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 406 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 392 (C2) HDA temperature 114 87 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 199 196 560	63.7% Good	Read 104 Write 117 Mixed 103 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.34 132% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 159GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 79 22196484 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1451 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 1552 (07) Seek error rate 66 53 103184846974 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22306 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 628 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1369 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 71 42 451459809309 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 496 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 53 53 95147 (C2) HDA temperature 29 58 68719476765 (C5) Current pending sector count 73 73 4480 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 73 73 4480 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -66825396148001 (F1) Unknown 100 253 67437229006 (F2) Unknown 100 253 118814592813	58.7% Above average	Read 111 Write 93.4 Mixed 78.6 71% 94.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 0.79 4K Mixed 0.12 40% 0.4 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 112%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 30GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 195 177 6225 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4376 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19530 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4277 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 290 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 167 167 101028 (C2) HDA temperature 118 96 29 (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	52.5% Above average	Read 89.6 Write 93.4 Mixed 86.4 68% 89.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.09 4K Mixed 0.18 71% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6x4GB 28,320 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 6 of 6 slots used 24GB DIMM Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	50.2% Above average	MC Read 18.7 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 19.5 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 11.4 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 61%

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Gaming 77%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 65%

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Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Extreme

CPU
Core i7 X 980Intel $148Bench 76%, 8,133 samples	146x
Core i7-950Intel $100Bench 66%, 36,389 samples	128x
Core i7 X 990Intel $499Bench 78%, 4,994 samples	94x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	57x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	39x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	39x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	22x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x

RAM
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	172x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 39,448 samples	86x
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	80x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $628

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