Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.4% 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	215% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170331
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 02 '17 at 19:53
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.7 1-Core 121 2-Core 241 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 780 78% 632 Pts	64-Core 952 59% 952 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.80 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 113 Parallax 113 91% 113 fps	MRender 94.1 Gravity 100 Splatting 90.3 77% 94.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 136GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7277 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3864 (B1) Unknown 99 99 50 (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 66 57 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 91 (F1) Unknown 99 99 102009758122	121% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 500 Mixed 517 115% 515 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 49.1 174% 64 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 171 178% 292 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 512GB-$290 5,772 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5743 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3083 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 94 94 168 (AE) Unknown 99 99 52 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1693 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 22 43 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 86072 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24518 (F2) Unknown 99 99 26778	215% Outstanding	Read 1,830 Write 972 Mixed 1,459 314% 1,420 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 140 4K Mixed 56.5 214% 80.4 MB/s	DQ Read 419 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 183 188% 309 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 215% Great: 241%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 170GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 176 7908 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1703 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3181 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1691 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15673 (C2) HDA temperature 123 112 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	52.8% Above average	Read 94.7 Write 89.2 Mixed 98.2 71% 94 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.17 74% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 101%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$178 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 52GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 143 11650 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3904 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7262 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3832 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3786 (C2) HDA temperature 121 106 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	72.9% Very good	Read 130 Write 124 Mixed 145 101% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.52 4K Mixed 0.2 89% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 98%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 32GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 114874584 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7300 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 58 58 236264871544 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12738 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6513 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 7 (BD) vendor-specific 35 35 65 (BE) vendor-specific 70 59 13390118942 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 142 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 61 61 79965 (C2) HDA temperature 30 41 -140737488355298 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 32800665246075 (F1) Unknown 100 253 81914039807 (F2) Unknown 100 253 62655690540	79.1% Very good	Read 150 Write 126 Mixed 145 106% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.24 82% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GB 2,538 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2666 MHz clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 44.4 MC Write 44.1 MC Mixed 40.4 123% 43 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 23.1 58% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 54.9 73% 54.9 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,230x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $274Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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