Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.4% 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	77.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150714
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 15 '16 at 23:50
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 129 2-Core 259 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 476 8-Core 734 75% 605 Pts	64-Core 738 46% 738 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 114 Parallax 110 88% 111 fps	MRender 94.7 Gravity 98.6 Splatting 81.5 74% 91.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 240GB-$74 29,295 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: O1203AB Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 126 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 232 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 27 (A3) Unknown 100 100 281 (94) Unknown 100 100 37892 (95) Unknown 100 100 516 (96) Unknown 100 100 364 (97) Unknown 100 100 492 (A4) Unknown 100 100 12371 (A5) Unknown 100 100 46 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 55195500478506 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 48673 (F2) Unknown 100 100 59294 (F5) Unknown 100 100 73066 (F6) Unknown 100 100 75784 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	77.2% Very good	Read 491 Write 250 Mixed 274 74% 339 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 54.4 4K Mixed 23.8 107% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 46.6 84% 168 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 92%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 344GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 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 174 172 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 495 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 647 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 228 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1065 (C2) HDA temperature 105 99 38 (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	79.8% Very good	Read 139 Write 139 Mixed 102 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.18 90% 1 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 13,205 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	76.5% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 23.9 77% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 24.6 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 103%

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

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,778x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	541x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	276x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	457x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	352x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	245x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	172x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	162x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	175x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $738

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16