Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	77% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z (all builds)
Memory	27.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 10 '16 at 05:04
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

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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 i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 97.4 1-Core 127 2-Core 243 89% 156 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 607 61% 497 Pts	64-Core 614 38% 614 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6180) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7270 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 152 Parallax 135 114% 142 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 140 Splatting 119 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 89GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2234 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 670 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 70 61 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 99 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4092551147	116% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 415 Mixed 424 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 93.2 4K Mixed 49 180% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 254 DQ Mixed 120 142% 251 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 13 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8216 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2540 (B1) Unknown 95 95 155 (B3) Unknown 99 99 13 (B5) Unknown 99 99 13 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 13 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1519 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25667967601	77% Very good	Read 407 Write 314 Mixed 295 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 72 4K Mixed 23.7 116% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 171 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 51.3 68% 123 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 116%
Adata SP600 256GB 4,724 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 33GB free Firmware: 2.9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6101 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1585 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 979 (A9) Unknown 100 100 2359299 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 196 196 17186029595 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 440 (C2) HDA temperature 71 71 171800264733 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	82% Excellent	Read 483 Write 218 Mixed 283 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 24.9 132% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 27 76% 164 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 97%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 28GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13073 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3095 (E8) Unknown 100 100 16133924728 (E9) Unknown 98 0 98	82.3% Excellent	Read 330 Write 367 Mixed 371 80% 356 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 81.8 4K Mixed 33.7 128% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 79.3 83% 137 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 504GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 9476608 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2103 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3864171 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4223 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1196 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 504692766 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 267 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10446 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 77309411358 (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 -24111946397386 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4660515681 (F2) Unknown 100 253 33046953438
Poor: 55% Great: 112%
WD Black 500GB (2012)-$47 20,548 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 109GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 336 (03) Spinup time 176 174 2183 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6709 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13731 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3802 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1460 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5248 (C2) HDA temperature 110 101 33 (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	70.8% Very good	Read 131 Write 115 Mixed 89.2 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.18 87% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1608ET3LX0. 4x8GB 995 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	MC Read 24.2 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 22.8 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 23 63% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 48.6 82% 48.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 67%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	226x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	65x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	40x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	29x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	22x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	12x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	25x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	15x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	9x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $581

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 $40	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