Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 92.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.5% 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	167% 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.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170331
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '17 at 06:29
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (78^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)	92.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 119 2-Core 240 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 481 8-Core 794 78% 637 Pts	64-Core 951 59% 951 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 92.5% 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 (95^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 113 Parallax 103 91% 109 fps	MRender 94.4 Gravity 98.2 Splatting 91.8 77% 94.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 137GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7317 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3898 (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 102606245029	121% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 503 Mixed 517 115% 515 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 49.1 175% 64.3 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 322 DQ Mixed 173 174% 281 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 512GB-$290 5,772 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5783 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3117 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 94 94 169 (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 51 22 49 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 86608 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24717 (F2) Unknown 99 99 27700	167% Outstanding	Read 1,710 Write 398 Mixed 774 209% 961 MB/s	4K Read 45.3 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 46.6 205% 79.1 MB/s	DQ Read 426 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 184 163% 253 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 167% Great: 241%
Seagate Barracuda Pro 6TB (2016)-$149 321 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4TB free Firmware: DN03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 68 83422307 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1304582 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 88622355185668 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 59 689438760 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 180 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 40 41 103079215144 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 6 83422307 (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 48670569398276 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2982167738 (F2) Unknown 100 253 121122803
Poor: 23% Great: 118%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$178 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 148 143 11583 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3936 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7293 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3864 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3818 (C2) HDA temperature 112 106 40 (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	96.2% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 156 Mixed 160 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 3.07 4K Mixed 0.25 104% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 98%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 20GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 136958128 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7334 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 58 58 236264879219 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12776 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6547 (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 67 59 13439991841 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 142 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 80285 (C2) HDA temperature 33 41 -140737488355295 (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 -83468394423921 (F1) Unknown 100 253 81988545291 (F2) Unknown 100 253 62670969734	85.1% Excellent	Read 141 Write 157 Mixed 121 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.3 73% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85.1% 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 44.1 MC Write 44.2 MC Mixed 40.4 123% 42.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 23.1 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 55.4 72% 55.4 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

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Gaming 45%

Yacht

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,228x
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	170x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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: 66% - Good

Total price: $763

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