Asus PRIME X299-A

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 109% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	124% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	202% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME X299-A (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171229
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 13 '18 at 20:30
Run Duration	469 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7820X-$375 28,524 User benchmarks, average bench 80% LGA 2066 R4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 77.9 1-Core 133 2-Core 260 86% 157 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 1018 90% 764 Pts	64-Core 1,415 88% 1,415 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 180 Parallax 165 140% 172 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 169 Splatting 123 112% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 342GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	202% Outstanding	Read 1,887 Write 1,379 Mixed 1,189 329% 1,485 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 34 4K Mixed 26.2 92% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 147 153% 252 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 202% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$175 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 41GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 32651 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 680 (B1) Unknown 95 95 163 (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 66 39 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 420 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23794118931	85.9% Excellent	Read 519 Write 422 Mixed 449 103% 463 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 46.6 4K Mixed 21 87% 30.3 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 78.7 118% 224 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 116%
WD Re 4TB (2012)-$70 4,260 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01K04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 138 9875 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 555 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14273 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 348 (10) Unknown 0 200 11097328155 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 16696 (C2) HDA temperature 120 85 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	75.9% Very good	Read 132 Write 132 Mixed 131 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 0.67 162% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 96%
WD Re 4TB (2012)-$70 4,260 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01K04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 134 9866 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 560 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14282 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 348 (10) Unknown 0 200 14540025177 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17192 (C2) HDA temperature 120 79 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 41 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 39 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 46	81.3% Excellent	Read 147 Write 136 Mixed 129 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 3.08 4K Mixed 0.43 143% 1.48 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 96%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 459GB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 88 (03) Spinup time 143 143 42977984952 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1033 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 123 123 31 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 40226 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 843 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2233 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2233 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 304942284833 (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 200 200 8	60.8% Good	Read 99.9 Write 112 Mixed 69.7 70% 93.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.29 100% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 82%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 217GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 188 176 7558 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 595 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17958 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 390 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 257 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 16697 (C2) HDA temperature 121 92 31 (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 21 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	44.9% Average	Read 77.5 Write 78.8 Mixed 76 58% 77.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.26 94% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 44.9% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 74GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 81 178668648 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 707 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 60846093 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26322 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 515 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 928 (BC) Unknown 100 1 31835 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 69 40 23644316499999 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 144 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 71731 (C2) HDA temperature 31 60 38654705695 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 179 15604 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -52853867522965 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10957311221 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16821108131	79.9% Very good	Read 125 Write 154 Mixed 96.6 93% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.18 64% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 114%
SanDisk Ultra 124GB 241 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 51GB free, PID 558a Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	17.4% Very poor	Read 35 Write 21.7 Mixed 24.3 32% 27 MB/s	4K Read 3.41 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.89 118% 2.17 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 17.4% Great: 30%
NS-DCR30A2 16GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 12GB free, PID 0732 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	21.4% Poor	Read 35.1 Write 24 Mixed 29 36% 29.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.5 4K Write 3.2 4K Mixed 1.9 194% 3.53 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 21.4% Great: 21%
UFD USB Flash Drive 2GB 51 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 2GB free, PID a740 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	6.38% Terrible	Read 20 Write 6.42 Mixed 8.22 12% 11.6 MB/s	4K Read 8.55 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 33% 2.86 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.38% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 1x16GB 1,722 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.7% Below average	MC Read 9.2 MC Write 13.1 MC Mixed 8 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 14.8 SC Mixed 9.2 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 84.6 47% 84.6 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 47%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 93%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME X299-A

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $206Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	376x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	217x
Core i9-7900XIntel $349Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	149x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	193x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	93x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	57x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	49x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	49x

RAM
BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 4x4GBCrucialBench 82%, 497 samples	53x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	32x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	26x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16