Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


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 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.8% 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	120% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151001
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '17 at 23:40
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	6%

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 (97^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 96.7 1-Core 134 2-Core 254 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 742 72% 593 Pts	64-Core 745 46% 745 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1316 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.8% Very good	Lighting 97.8 Reflection 99.6 Parallax 94.3 80% 97.2 fps	MRender 85.2 Gravity 92.1 Splatting 84 71% 87.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$60 1,772 User benchmarks, average bench 171% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	Read 1,690 Write 582 Mixed 776 222% 1,016 MB/s	4K Read 16.5 4K Write 46 4K Mixed 3.46 54% 22 MB/s	DQ Read 4.82 DQ Write 76.3 DQ Mixed 11.9 18% 31 MB/s
Poor: 113% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 213%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 9GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1169 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 393 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 67 51 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 933082885	107% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 412 Mixed 422 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 93.8 4K Mixed 43.2 165% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 201 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 102 116% 195 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 124%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 199 405 (03) Spinup time 185 176 7716 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1009 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 5 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1813 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 735 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 27 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1699 (C2) HDA temperature 123 106 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 13 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	85.6% Excellent	Read 147 Write 152 Mixed 143 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.3 107% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 100%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 178 5833 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 464 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1155 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 392 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 676 (C2) HDA temperature 122 114 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	91.7% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 144 Mixed 135 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.28 97% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 5,376 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 39.7 MC Write 41.7 MC Mixed 33.9 110% 38.4 GB/s	SC Read 22.2 SC Write 46 SC Mixed 32.4 96% 33.5 GB/s	Latency 51.4 78% 51.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 111%

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Gaming 87%

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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	371x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 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 $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	25x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $45Bench 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 $273	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 $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