Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	116% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	37.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140507
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 14:33
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (40^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 above expectations (78^th percentile)	73.1% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 94.7 2-Core 176 72% 120 Pts	4-Core 303 8-Core 476 48% 390 Pts	64-Core 473 29% 473 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	116% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 163 Parallax 142 123% 152 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 175 Splatting 124 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8727135 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -28028956569419 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1064 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 148 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 43 68722294815 (C2) HDA temperature 31 43 68722294815 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8727135 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8727135 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8727135 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12178 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9707 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9707 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8454	37.7% Below average	Read 260 Write 147 Mixed 176 43% 194 MB/s	4K Read 14 4K Write 49.2 4K Mixed 3.89 52% 22.4 MB/s	DQ Read 14.2 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 6.2 29% 59.6 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 85%
Seagate ST3750640AS 750GB-$60 7,916 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 75GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 90 53345225 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5022 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 54 50 4810631580506 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8360 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2767 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 44 572588066 (C2) HDA temperature 34 56 47244640290 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 84 52 220117588 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	27.3% Poor	Read 49.4 Write 45.7 Mixed 42.4 34% 45.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.82 4K Mixed 0.27 62% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 27.3% Great: 42%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 4GB free Firmware: CR100-11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7296 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2216 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2927 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 860 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 162745 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 3 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 31 (C2) HDA temperature 145 85 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 162745 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	32.5% Below average	Read 59.6 Write 53.6 Mixed 59.7 44% 57.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.28 72% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 44%
WD My Book 25EE 8TB 12,029 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 6TB free, PID 25ee Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	41.1% Average	Read 99.9 Write 96.4 Mixed 112 134% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.42 77% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 41.1% Great: 98%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 29.7 90% 31.4 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 13.7 SC Mixed 12.4 39% 13.7 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 77%

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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) $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