Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 91.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	70.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	56.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	8.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '17 at 16:44
Run Duration	235 Seconds
Run User	EST-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 (98^th percentile)	91.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 142 2-Core 274 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 740 74% 603 Pts	64-Core 763 47% 763 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8506) CLim: 1553 MHz, MLim: 1810 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.1% Very good	Lighting 90.2 Reflection 80.8 Parallax 79.6 74% 83.6 fps	MRender 84.3 Gravity 80.1 Splatting 70.9 63% 78.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 100 480GB-$139 1,753 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 114GB free Firmware: SAFM11.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9699 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 191 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 80 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 198 198 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 64 (C2) HDA temperature 68 49 219044642848	60.7% Good	Read 484 Write 187 Mixed 181 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 54.2 4K Mixed 7.44 78% 29.2 MB/s	DQ Read 213 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 32.6 66% 134 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 90%
Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB 244 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: E120506a 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 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 34654 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 841 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 41 41 180391182377 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	56.1% Above average	Read 289 Write 165 Mixed 227 50% 227 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 71.8 4K Mixed 20.2 92% 36.8 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 25.2 56% 113 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 45%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 400GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 205 205 21493121305 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 150 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5175 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 91 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2744 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2744 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 154620264479 (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 200 200 0	65% Good	Read 113 Write 114 Mixed 116 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 107%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 268GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 40 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 75 69 7705 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1327 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 42804 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1243 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 25 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 61 167504838684 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 179 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 14556	57.2% Above average	Read 82 Write 118 Mixed 103 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.26 4K Mixed 0.26 64% 0.42 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 162GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 14 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 75 69 7792 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1051 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 38804 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 990 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 62 163209805853 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 15 15 45457 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 416 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 12749	61.3% Good	Read 137 Write 76.7 Mixed 105 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 0.31 4K Mixed 0.21 52% 0.36 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 151GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6370 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 3770 (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 89 89 56346 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2048 (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 75 59 454623257 (C2) HDA temperature 74 56 454295578 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1307569 (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 10 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	57% Above average	Read 117 Write 82.4 Mixed 109 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 0.25 4K Mixed 0.16 44% 0.31 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB-$169 37,519 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	MC Read 35.3 MC Write 36.5 MC Mixed 29.8 97% 33.9 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 36.4 SC Mixed 27.5 81% 28.2 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 97%

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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	1,764x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	539x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	454x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	349x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	242x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	171x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	171x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $736

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