Asus X99-A/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	71.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92.2% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	20.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160628
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '18 at 02:24
Run Duration	231 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 84.7 2-Core 220 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 690 66% 544 Pts	64-Core 849 53% 849 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 36FD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2609 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Lighting 134 Reflection 129 Parallax 101 109% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10324 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1776 (B1) Unknown 98 98 27 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 47 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 199 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28691684824	92.2% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 409 Mixed 410 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 72.6 4K Mixed 24.2 126% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 24.4 74% 157 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 134%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 16GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 116 134487511 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -105054900047274 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1845 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 400 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 134487511 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 134487511 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 134487511 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 997 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1094 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1094 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1830	67.1% Good	Read 503 Write 133 Mixed 201 61% 279 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 80.2 4K Mixed 16.6 109% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 187 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 48.5 68% 126 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 82%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 96GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 172 2133 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5193 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10488 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2360 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 82 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5110 (C2) HDA temperature 116 94 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	84.1% Excellent	Read 146 Write 146 Mixed 143 110% 145 MB/s	4K Read 1.24 4K Write 2.69 4K Mixed 0.28 132% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 109%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2010)-$35 32,229 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 94GB free Firmware: 03.01A03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 178 1500 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14835 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8211 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1314 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 496 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 181 181 57689 (C2) HDA temperature 119 103 28 (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 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 390	38.3% Below average	Read 67 Write 66.3 Mixed 66.8 50% 66.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.22 73% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 50%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 68GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 2108 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4597 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8202 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1272 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 75 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4521 (C2) HDA temperature 111 95 32 (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	101% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 183 Mixed 136 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.36 107% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 8x4GB 247 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	101% Outstanding	MC Read 38.7 MC Write 36.4 MC Mixed 41.4 111% 38.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 20 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 135%

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Gaming 65%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	759x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	194x
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	91x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	118x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	113x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	39x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	43x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	27x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GBCorsair $140Bench 87%, 4,858 samples	26x

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Value: 91% - Outstanding

Total price: $371

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 $182	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