Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 82.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	244% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170810
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 26 '18 at 16:35
Run Duration	314 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	82.2% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 108 2-Core 198 77% 132 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 708 66% 551 Pts	64-Core 856 53% 856 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.4% Good	Lighting 75.7 Reflection 80.5 Parallax 72.5 62% 76.2 fps	MRender 78.3 Gravity 70 Splatting 66.4 58% 71.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Fusion-io ioDrive2 1.205TB 886GB free Firmware: 7.1.13 rev 109322 Public Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples

Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 512GB-$290 5,772 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 308GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1834 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 330 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 4 (AE) Unknown 99 99 8 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1721 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 23 42 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 2048 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2021 (F2) Unknown 99 99 964	244% Outstanding	Read 1,894 Write 1,513 Mixed 1,477 362% 1,628 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 153 4K Mixed 53.5 212% 82.5 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 248 DQ Mixed 136 137% 221 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 244% Great: 241%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 11GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 89 89 4414454 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -29111288320747 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1875 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 44 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (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 4414454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4414454 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4414454 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10923 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9618 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9618 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10478	62.9% Good	Read 505 Write 131 Mixed 184 59% 273 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 63 4K Mixed 16.2 99% 36.2 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 46.5 59% 105 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 82%
Kingston DataTraveler 108 4GB 125 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 2GB free, PID 1660 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	5.72% Terrible	Read 22.6 Write 4.85 Mixed 6.69 11% 11.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.7 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.01 22% 1.91 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.72% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 4,583 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	MC Read 39.4 MC Write 40.1 MC Mixed 35.6 110% 38.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 20.7 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 117%

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Gaming 45%

Yacht

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,227x
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 $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	83x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 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	31x
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 $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