Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.1% 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	101% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 27 '17 at 17:02
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 92 1-Core 124 2-Core 248 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 739 75% 609 Pts	64-Core 964 60% 964 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.1% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 111 Parallax 99.4 83% 104 fps	MRender 92.3 Gravity 94.4 Splatting 88.7 75% 91.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2045 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 555 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 75 (A3) Unknown 100 100 16 (A4) Unknown 100 100 62360 (A5) Unknown 100 100 107 (A6) Unknown 100 100 8 (A7) Unknown 100 100 58 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 67 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 58013 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 335967 (F2) Unknown 100 100 712153 (F5) Unknown 100 100 498880	101% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 364 Mixed 424 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 37.9 148% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 70.9 113% 215 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 103%
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 40GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5337 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 190 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 23 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 51 210454577186 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 12663467803 (F7) Unknown 100 100 395833182 (F8) Unknown 100 100 189890465 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3577 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	87.1% Excellent	Read 483 Write 343 Mixed 341 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 74.6 4K Mixed 26.8 114% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 219 DQ Mixed 46.6 97% 200 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 104%
Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB-$52 41,501 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 663GB free Firmware: JE4OA50A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 175 100 38654705664 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 5769 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 6236 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4821 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 2426660126720 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4 (BE) vendor-specific 73 44 454754331 (BF) G-sense error rate 21 21 20353 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4915275 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 22837 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	51% Above average	Read 90.9 Write 87 Mixed 89.3 67% 89.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.19 64% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 53%

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 2133 MHz clocked @ 2155 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.4% Good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 22 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 22.4 SC Mixed 20.1 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 110%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 41%

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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 $46

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