Asus P9X79

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	67.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P9X79 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140724
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '17 at 10:07
Run Duration	285 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	42%

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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 i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA2011, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	70.2% Very good	Memory 87.9 1-Core 90.2 2-Core 170 69% 116 Pts	4-Core 285 8-Core 464 46% 374 Pts	64-Core 497 31% 497 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	67.6% Good	Lighting 89.4 Reflection 107 Parallax 90.5 73% 95.8 fps	MRender 71.3 Gravity 88.5 Splatting 56.1 58% 72 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22811 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1660 (B1) Unknown 80 80 236 (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 56 41 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 570 (F1) Unknown 99 99 108189060540
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 371GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 221 172 5933 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5672 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22563 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1594 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 437 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 172 172 85867 (C2) HDA temperature 107 96 45 (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	57.2% Above average	Read 98.6 Write 101 Mixed 106 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.18 76% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 83%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 150GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6160 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14170 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4989 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1383 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 487718941 (C2) HDA temperature 69 55 571605023 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1274137 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	34.9% Below average	Read 62.6 Write 59 Mixed 61.4 46% 61 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.25 67% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 59%
WD Blue 2.5" 750GB (2010)-$55 30,952 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 75GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 195 179 1241 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6449 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21301 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3770 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 313 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1747137 (C2) HDA temperature 107 80 40 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	36.5% Below average	Read 65.1 Write 62 Mixed 57.8 46% 61.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.18 60% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 54%
Samsung STORY Station 2TB 305 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 305GB free, PID 5f07 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	18.5% Very poor	Read 32.9 Write 42.2 Mixed 19.5 40% 31.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.24 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.26 60% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 18.5% Great: 23%
Samsung STORY Station 3 2TB 380 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 128GB free, PID 6054 Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	20.3% Poor	Read 35.6 Write 38.3 Mixed 35.3 47% 36.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.45 91% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 20.3% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 3,126 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.3% Average	MC Read 18 MC Write 16.2 MC Mixed 16.7 48% 17 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 10.6 35% 12.2 GB/s	Latency 69.7 57% 69.7 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 79%

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

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Gaming 58%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus P9X79 - $300

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	650x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	361x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	229x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	84x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	38x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	27x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $512

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