Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


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 a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	54.3% 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150323
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 07 '17 at 11:35
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	24%

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
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.9 GHz, turbo 4.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	Memory 90.8 1-Core 85.4 2-Core 170 69% 115 Pts	4-Core 308 8-Core 513 50% 411 Pts	64-Core 515 32% 515 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.5% Good	Lighting 75.9 Reflection 64.5 Parallax 89.9 62% 76.8 fps	MRender 64.1 Gravity 63.4 Splatting 80.6 58% 69.4 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB-$75 16,709 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2316RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 8258 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1697 (A6) Unknown 100 100 264 (A7) Unknown 100 100 20 (A8) Unknown 100 100 479 (A9) Unknown 100 100 156 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 366 (AE) Unknown 100 100 652 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 57 244814053407 (D4) Unknown 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3092 (E8) Unknown 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 47692 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11576 (F2) Unknown 253 253 16530 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	54.3% Above average	Read 324 Write 171 Mixed 216 52% 237 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 47.2 4K Mixed 18.5 86% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 129 DQ Write 98.9 DQ Mixed 44.8 52% 91 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 91%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 200GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 2183 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2574 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11227 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2400 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1139 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1435 (C2) HDA temperature 116 91 27 (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	88.5% Excellent	Read 165 Write 144 Mixed 134 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.22 92% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A1866C10 CMV4GX3M1B1600C11 Kingston ACR512X64D3U16C11G 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.9% Average	MC Read 21 MC Write 15.9 MC Mixed 16.4 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.2 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 50%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z - $220

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	441x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	215x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	48x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	29x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	29x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBCorsairBench 66%, 6,389 samples	22x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	20x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $629

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16