Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	73.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	68.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	7.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160504
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 09 '18 at 16:24
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	78.6% Very good	Memory 91.3 1-Core 90.6 2-Core 182 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 682 62% 518 Pts	64-Core 934 58% 934 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	73.1% Very good	Lighting 104 Reflection 111 Parallax 101 85% 105 fps	MRender 32 Gravity 71.4 Splatting 72.6 50% 58.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB-$75 16,709 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 10132 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2749 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 41 (A8) Unknown 100 100 345 (A9) Unknown 100 100 222 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 235 (AE) Unknown 100 100 101 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 57 244814250014 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1875 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 30557 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10455 (F2) Unknown 253 253 14720 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	68.5% Good	Read 428 Write 157 Mixed 152 54% 246 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 74.1 4K Mixed 20.9 113% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 226 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 45.2 73% 142 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 91%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 80GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 139 134 4050 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3548 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6759 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1903 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 364 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 184 184 48710 (C2) HDA temperature 119 101 24 (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	45.7% Average	Read 86.9 Write 71.9 Mixed 9.18 40% 56 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.16 80% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 85%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 24GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 168 2325 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4262 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6005 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1686 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 75 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4186 (C2) HDA temperature 116 105 27 (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	87.5% Excellent	Read 158 Write 146 Mixed 114 104% 140 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 0.34 136% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3x4GB 39,448 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 3 of 8 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	MC Read 42 MC Write 30.1 MC Mixed 28.6 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 19.7 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 57%

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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	1,232x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	327x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $98Bench 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: 68% - Good

Total price: $744

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16