Asus P9X79

Performance Results


Gaming 26% Raft	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 23% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 72%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	26.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	63% 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.

Very high background CPU (56%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120618
Uptime	6.9 Days
Run Date	Feb 02 '18 at 17:29
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	56%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 (72^nd percentile)	72% Very good	Memory 88.6 1-Core 94.9 2-Core 181 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 301 8-Core 445 46% 373 Pts	64-Core 473 29% 473 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7950-$290 33,820 User benchmarks, average bench 29% PwrHis(1787 201C) 3GB CLim: 800 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 17.10.1 Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	26.1% Poor	Lighting 33.4 Reflection 24 Parallax 42.9 27% 33.4 fps	MRender 24.4 Gravity 31.8 Splatting 31.1 24% 29.1 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 26.1% Great: 32%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 42397 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 275 (B1) Unknown 88 88 430 (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 71 62 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 90 (F1) Unknown 99 99 37837411878	63% Good	Read 501 Write 191 Mixed 288 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 55.5 4K Mixed 17.9 85% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 61.7 DQ Mixed 53.5 60% 106 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 76%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 165878856 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11368 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 190387961 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 32031 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 98 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 597009563787 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 1804508725279 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 72456 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 -140737488355297 (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 74079595926762 (F1) Unknown 100 253 107075543007 (F2) Unknown 100 253 448613662518	80% Excellent	Read 147 Write 132 Mixed 132 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.17 70% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 96%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1134 (03) Spinup time 193 189 5308 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2046 (05) Reallocated sector count 198 198 111 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 42193 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 273 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 93 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1310019 (C2) HDA temperature 118 107 32 (C4) Reallocation count 91 91 109 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 4 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 198 0	57.2% Above average	Read 101 Write 98.1 Mixed 93.1 73% 97.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.25 104% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 67%

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)	83.6% Excellent	MC Read 31.6 MC Write 34.5 MC Mixed 30.6 92% 32.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 13.8 SC Mixed 12.7 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 77%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	647x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	229x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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