Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	80.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	96.1% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH X79 (all builds)
Memory	25.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140506
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 15 '18 at 02:51
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

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PC Performing below expectations (30^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 below expectations (25^th percentile)	66.3% Good	Memory 82.2 1-Core 93.3 2-Core 174 68% 116 Pts	4-Core 273 8-Core 396 42% 334 Pts	64-Core 393 24% 393 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (62^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.5% Excellent	Lighting 99.1 Reflection 114 Parallax 94.2 81% 102 fps	MRender 96.3 Gravity 93.1 Splatting 102 80% 97 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 540GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17542 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 301 (B1) Unknown 98 1 85 (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 64 55 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 83077735412	96.1% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 487 Mixed 506 112% 502 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 58.8 4K Mixed 36.5 122% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 174 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 77.7 84% 141 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Pro 2TB-$320 2,669 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 126GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3548 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 25 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 59 59 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 93 93 7032 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15837694817	80.2% Excellent	Read 376 Write 348 Mixed 364 81% 362 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 55.2 4K Mixed 30.1 117% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 252 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 101 98% 159 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 130%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 964GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 50 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8300 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1415 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 41756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 398 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 70 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1344 (C2) HDA temperature 112 100 40 (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	71.2% Very good	Read 151 Write 97.8 Mixed 128 95% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.44 101% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 85%
WD easystore 25FB 8TB 7,734 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2TB free, PID 25fb Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	41% Average	Read 98.7 Write 96.5 Mixed 84 118% 93.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.39 76% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 86%
ASMT 2115 2TB 186GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	131% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 183 Mixed 103 194% 157 MB/s	4K Read 11.3 4K Write 19.9 4K Mixed 7.37 971% 12.9 MB/s	DQ Read 12.7 DQ Write 22.8 DQ Mixed 7.64 1,080% 14.3 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 8x4GB 90 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 30.5 MC Mixed 26.6 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 13.4 SC Mixed 11.8 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 76.5 52% 76.5 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 113%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - $335

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	434x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	383x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	77x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	60x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Dominator DHX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 73%, 416 samples	21x
Vengeance DDR3 1866 4x8GBCorsairBench 88%, 441 samples	19x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $812

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $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