Asus P9X79 PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.4% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	46.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 PRO (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120410
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 10 '16 at 14:37
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 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 way above expectations (91^st percentile)	77.2% Very good	Memory 90.5 1-Core 99 2-Core 193 74% 128 Pts	4-Core 356 8-Core 441 51% 399 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250X 12,863 User benchmarks, average bench 12% MSI(1462 2715) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2311.0 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.4% Very poor	Lighting 16.5 Reflection 16.7 Parallax 22.5 13% 18.5 fps	MRender 14.2 Gravity 15.3 Splatting 18.7 14% 16.1 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force GS 128GB-$150 5,048 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.20 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 6679606 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 128617090649389 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1434 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 73 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 38 63 55838703654 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6679606 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6679606 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6679606 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4187 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3961 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3961 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4504	46.1% Average	Read 356 Write 133 Mixed 182 49% 223 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 32.3 4K Mixed 13.1 62% 21.3 MB/s	DQ Read 135 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 38.6 51% 92.9 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 513GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 90848182 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3488 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 8642183461 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6104 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2665 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65540 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 46 572522530 (C2) HDA temperature 34 54 51539607586 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 29 90848182 (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 -113627654769247 (F1) Unknown 100 253 981401516 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4270505905	64.9% Good	Read 117 Write 109 Mixed 97.1 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.44 97% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-442.A00LF 4x4GB 585 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	MC Read 30.2 MC Write 33.3 MC Mixed 28.8 88% 30.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 13.7 SC Mixed 12.3 39% 13.7 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus P9X79 PRO - $374

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	542x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	385x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	35x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 8x4GBKingstonBench 86%, 505 samples	19x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $881

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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