Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91% 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	159% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140725
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 08 '17 at 13:24
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	LVA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 119 2-Core 241 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 626 63% 514 Pts	64-Core 622 38% 622 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 121 Parallax 101 94% 113 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 105 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M8Pe NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$110 2,806 User benchmarks, average bench 180% 173GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.05 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	159% Outstanding	Read 1,684 Write 589 Mixed 731 218% 1,001 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 76.9 4K Mixed 36.9 148% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 96.2 111% 197 MB/s
Poor: 125% ↑ This bench: 159% Great: 215%
Seagate ST9320325AS 320GB-$34 18,767 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 239GB free Firmware: 0002BSM1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 114783438 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 777 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3550128 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7390 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 648 (B8) Unknown 96 96 4 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 454688795 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 15 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 197 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30894 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 51539607579 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 50 114783438 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	33.8% Below average	Read 56.9 Write 61.1 Mixed 45.6 41% 54.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.26 57% 0.44 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 39%

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 @ 1066 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	MC Read 34 MC Write 34.4 MC Mixed 31.4 95% 33.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 14.9 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 65.1 62% 65.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 87.5% 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	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 $129Bench 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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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