Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	86.1% 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	74.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 02 '17 at 14:24
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing below expectations (38^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 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	78.2% Very good	Memory 89.9 1-Core 95.8 2-Core 186 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 359 8-Core 542 56% 451 Pts	64-Core 695 43% 695 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3304) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.77 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 109 Parallax 93.2 90% 104 fps	MRender 95.5 Gravity 97.5 Splatting 97.7 79% 96.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 20 (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 63 58 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 365537429	74.1% Very good	Read 143 Write 408 Mixed 143 52% 231 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 74.3 4K Mixed 22 119% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 18.6 62% 133 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 124%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 853GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 173 5941 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 707 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3057 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 416 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 33701 (C2) HDA temperature 118 100 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	52.3% Above average	Read 105 Write 76.7 Mixed 59.1 60% 80.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.29 106% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 845GB free Firmware: CC3E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 100 76901379 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2646 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2333505 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13567 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 644 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 17180264464 (BD) vendor-specific 86 86 14 (BE) vendor-specific 67 40 288335396897 (C2) HDA temperature 33 60 47244640289 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 26 76901379 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 111587545321324 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1336222843 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1489550953	53.3% Above average	Read 112 Write 73.5 Mixed 75.8 65% 87.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.44 102% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 441GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 83 231551840 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5440 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 712 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12935124954 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19368 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2727 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 6185 (BC) Unknown 100 98 25770262539 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 66 49 17752522786 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2295 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5618 (C2) HDA temperature 34 51 -140737488355294 (C5) Current pending sector count 85 82 2584 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 85 82 2584 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -102976135870755 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13362365991 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24794071908	64.4% Good	Read 89.5 Write 135 Mixed 90.5 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.22 66% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 173GB free Firmware: CC9D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 97 225845952 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6769 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 14049905 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18369 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3291 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 8 8 92 (BC) Unknown 100 95 73015558163 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 40 1508089069601 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2485 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 67528 (C2) HDA temperature 33 60 -140737488355295 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 16 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 16 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -28591597279662 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10727067864414 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -135412329786621	72.2% Very good	Read 133 Write 119 Mixed 77.4 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.44 4K Mixed 0.19 51% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-050.A00LF 2x8GB 1,731 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	55.4% Above average	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 19.5 MC Mixed 18.3 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 12.3 SC Mixed 12.1 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 67.3 59% 67.3 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 61%

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Desktop 79%

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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	296x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	60x

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: $812

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 $177	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