Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 87.8%, 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	81.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	28.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 22 '16 at 16:02
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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 (92^nd percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 134 2-Core 256 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 719 72% 585 Pts	64-Core 734 45% 734 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% PNY(196E 119E) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7557 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 159 Parallax 133 115% 144 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 139 Splatting 113 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 929GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 12 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 3 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 75 66 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21851314	117% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 405 Mixed 413 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 52.9 190% 67.5 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 137 149% 250 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 133%
PNY CS1311 480GB-$31 13,149 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2845 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 75 (A8) Unknown 100 100 620539 (AA) Unknown 100 100 359 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196620 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 20350 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2375	81.9% Excellent	Read 500 Write 341 Mixed 348 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 77 4K Mixed 10.6 100% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 49.1 101% 208 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 101%
PNY SSD2SC120G1SA754D117-551 120GB 412 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 12GB free Firmware: N1114B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st 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 4851 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 307 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 57 (B1) Unknown 0 0 84 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 100 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 87765 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 41 (E7) Temperature 98 100 31 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20818 (EA) Unknown 0 0 130 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10186 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12715	94.3% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 313 Mixed 388 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 34.2 142% 57.6 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 68 107% 204 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 98%
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 6GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -70497592279247 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 733 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 698 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 104 104 9407177 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 698 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 107898 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 70 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 107898 (F2) Unknown 100 100 252508 (F9) Unknown 100 100 3922	73.9% Very good	Read 453 Write 130 Mixed 227 59% 270 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 18.3 137% 56.3 MB/s	DQ Read 221 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 62.4 82% 148 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB 6,687 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	76.1% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.1 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 30.7 SC Mixed 25.4 71% 24.9 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 106%

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

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME - $185

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	370x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	78x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	100x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	46x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	42x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	25x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 24GBCorsairBench 65%, 14 samples	14x

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Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $1,445

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