Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 88.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.3% 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	69.5% 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

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

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140507
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 17:12
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.3% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 111 2-Core 219 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 463 8-Core 766 75% 615 Pts	64-Core 928 58% 928 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2102 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 113 Parallax 101 92% 109 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$42 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2748 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 800 (B1) Unknown 80 80 96 (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 55 42 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 383 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33741520420	69.5% Good	Read 484 Write 270 Mixed 276 76% 343 MB/s	4K Read 35.4 4K Write 49.8 4K Mixed 14.9 99% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 48.2 54% 93.1 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 114%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 149GB free Firmware: GM4OA5CA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 139 (03) Spinup time 127 127 21494825261 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3920 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 68 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 131 131 29 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 13864 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2675 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4162 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4162 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 279173857318 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 68 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 16	40.3% Average	Read 71.9 Write 68.3 Mixed 80 56% 73.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5273DH0-CK0 M378B5273DH0-CK0 Micron ITC Adata AM2U139C4P2-S01S 16GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	87.2% Excellent	MC Read 35.2 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 31.4 96% 33.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 13.6 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 112%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	542x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	91x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	35x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	19x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $896

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) $30	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