Asus Rampage III Formula

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 79.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	66.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Very high background CPU (94%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Rampage III Formula (all builds)
Memory	18.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110920
Uptime	2.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '17 at 17:16
Run Duration	247 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	94%

PC Performing as expected (44^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 X 000 102 User benchmarks, average bench 79% LGA1366, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.35 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	79.1% Very good	Memory 94.9 1-Core 85.7 2-Core 171 70% 117 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 509 53% 426 Pts	64-Core 665 41% 665 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.59 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 53% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 500GB-$40 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 240GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th 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 1303 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1135 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 62 (A3) Unknown 100 100 29 (A4) Unknown 100 100 37593 (A5) Unknown 100 100 85 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 35 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1111 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 501799 (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 4 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 284721 (F2) Unknown 100 100 387946 (F5) Unknown 100 100 601488	66.4% Good	Read 372 Write 229 Mixed 287 66% 296 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 43.1 4K Mixed 29.4 94% 31.5 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 74.8 85% 146 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 108%
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 28GB free Firmware: 3.3. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 2468036 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 37933151169174 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3205 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 524 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 50 51542884382 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2468036 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2468036 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2468036 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9541 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9071 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9071 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17684	41.6% Average	Read 205 Write 122 Mixed 121 33% 149 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 44.3 4K Mixed 12.7 72% 26.1 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 99.4 DQ Mixed 32.9 45% 82.3 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 79%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 872GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 252 224 7391 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7945 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16602 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5265 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1665 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6277 (C2) HDA temperature 116 92 34 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.2% Good	Read 110 Write 103 Mixed 82 74% 98.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.51 4K Mixed 0.36 117% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 76%
WD Black 750GB (2008)-$140 11,698 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 472GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 199 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 4158 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6545 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12340 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3628 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 828 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5716 (C2) HDA temperature 115 92 32 (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	69% Good	Read 129 Write 112 Mixed 24.3 64% 88.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.4 117% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 65%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 299GB free Firmware: 12.01C02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 171 6358 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12149 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24090 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7192 (C0) Power-off retract count 187 187 10445 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19789 (C2) HDA temperature 116 94 34 (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 61 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.7% Average	Read 72.3 Write 69.1 Mixed 32.3 43% 57.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.43 119% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 69%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 208GB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 217549328 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2563 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 17347162216 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9674 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2495 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 55835426833 (BD) vendor-specific 74 74 26 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 504692766 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1383 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 73775 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 51539607582 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 111076444214346 (F1) Unknown 100 253 65641046847 (F2) Unknown 100 253 93307382955	57.5% Above average	Read 88.1 Write 113 Mixed 16.7 52% 72.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 0.68 4K Mixed 0.09 38% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6x4GB 28,320 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 6 of 6 slots used 24GB DIMM Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	49.7% Average	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 16 MC Mixed 17.9 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 12.2 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 61%

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Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Formula

CPU
Core i7-950Intel $100Bench 66%, 36,389 samples	70x
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	54x
Core i7 X 980Intel $148Bench 76%, 8,133 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	31x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	16x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	15x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
BX500 480GBCrucial $38Bench 63%, 83,298 samples	9x

RAM
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	50x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 39,448 samples	44x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	31x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $630

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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