Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 137% UFO	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 116% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 102%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	133% 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	186% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160302
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 05 '17 at 09:26
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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)	102% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 147 2-Core 294 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 583 8-Core 818 88% 701 Pts	64-Core 818 51% 818 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 187 Reflection 206 Parallax 181 152% 191 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 186 Splatting 127 120% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 202GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12792 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2111 (B1) Unknown 96 96 43 (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 73 54 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 89 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21841280704	86.5% Excellent	Read 485 Write 339 Mixed 349 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 80.9 4K Mixed 19.4 120% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 74.5 107% 199 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 118%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 196GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	186% Outstanding	Read 1,824 Write 891 Mixed 1,092 279% 1,269 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 165 4K Mixed 21.7 172% 74.7 MB/s	DQ Read 106 DQ Write 319 DQ Mixed 21.6 72% 149 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 186% Great: 243%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 86 176488560 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4802 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8610787713 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11885 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2110 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1325 (BC) Unknown 100 96 27 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 47 155224768542 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 357 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 63410 (C2) HDA temperature 30 53 -140737488355298 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 59 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 59 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 100532299503555 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22755495142 (F2) Unknown 100 253 18504045337	101% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 190 Mixed 156 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.34 88% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2TB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 204918520 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 510 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 136 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5353538 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7037 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 468 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 47 572456991 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1212 (C2) HDA temperature 31 53 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 3 204918520 (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 37460704760248 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3996643587 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2376136385	74.7% Very good	Read 140 Write 121 Mixed 99.4 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 0.2 59% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 75%
Generic STORAGE DEVICE 64GB 737 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 57GB free, PID 4000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	33.1% Below average	Read 66.6 Write 52.7 Mixed 54.1 72% 57.8 MB/s	4K Read 9.13 4K Write 3.19 4K Mixed 2.5 227% 4.94 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 2800 C15 2x8GB 777 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	MC Read 34.2 MC Write 35.3 MC Mixed 25.6 91% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 20.8 SC Write 37.3 SC Mixed 27.9 82% 28.7 GB/s	Latency 50.3 79% 50.3 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 101%

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Gaming 87%

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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 $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