Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.5% 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	268% 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 MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Oct 07 '16 at 07:54
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 145 2-Core 280 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 764 79% 635 Pts	64-Core 749 46% 749 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.1% 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 3232) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7290 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 114 Parallax 98.9 89% 107 fps	MRender 92.3 Gravity 96.2 Splatting 88.3 75% 92.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 435GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	268% Outstanding	Read 2,205 Write 1,418 Mixed 1,485 377% 1,702 MB/s	4K Read 48.9 4K Write 153 4K Mixed 59.6 231% 87.1 MB/s	DQ Read 610 DQ Write 396 DQ Mixed 225 243% 410 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 268% Great: 283%
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 164GB free Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 9491 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1247 (A6) Unknown 100 100 80 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 327 (A9) Unknown 100 100 229 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 183 (AE) Unknown 100 100 275 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 152 652836077596 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1546 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 47040 (F1) Unknown 253 253 17082 (F2) Unknown 253 253 17888 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	101% Outstanding	Read 477 Write 462 Mixed 459 104% 466 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 91.2 4K Mixed 27.7 132% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 304 DQ Mixed 68.6 124% 246 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 1.5TB 1,782 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 814GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	Read 124 Write 144 Mixed 113 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.59 125% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 189%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 759GB free Firmware: 1AA01117 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 72 72 9060 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2061 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 11955 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 30272 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 916 (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 70 48 504561694 (C2) HDA temperature 69 45 22012887071 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 455367 (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 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	65.1% Good	Read 109 Write 117 Mixed 115 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.61 150% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 62%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 342GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 165 6600 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 357 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5764 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 324 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 161 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 173 173 83270 (C2) HDA temperature 119 100 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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	56.9% Above average	Read 101 Write 97.3 Mixed 99.9 75% 99.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.19 82% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	98.4% Outstanding	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 37.3 MC Mixed 30.9 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 39.8 SC Mixed 31.1 88% 30.8 GB/s	Latency 53.5 75% 53.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 110%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	458x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	68x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	139x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	62x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	48x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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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 $177	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