Asus ROG MAXIMUS X APEX

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 92.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.2% 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	118% 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.

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X APEX (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171221
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 02 '18 at 00:23
Run Duration	239 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Memory 84.7 1-Core 130 2-Core 246 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 534 8-Core 931 89% 732 Pts	64-Core 1,214 75% 1,214 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 116 Parallax 110 91% 112 fps	MRender 95.9 Gravity 97.8 Splatting 97.4 80% 97.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Pro 1TB-$300 8,179 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 729GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 53 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 18 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 78 70 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 891077814	118% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 497 Mixed 517 115% 513 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 84.2 4K Mixed 50.2 170% 58.3 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 160 161% 261 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 132%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 172GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7892 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1790 (B1) Unknown 91 91 103 (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 77 58 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 92 (F1) Unknown 99 99 98381690763	89.6% Excellent	Read 505 Write 347 Mixed 350 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 39.8 4K Write 57.4 4K Mixed 25.1 123% 40.8 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 96.2 117% 209 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 126%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 889GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 166 162 2675 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1866 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8561 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1789 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1774 (C2) HDA temperature 115 102 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	95.9% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 174 Mixed 167 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.37 141% 1.38 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 108%
Seagate FA GoFlex Desk 2TB 2,298 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 1.5TB free, PID 50a1 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	14.6% Very poor	Read 36.1 Write 37.1 Mixed 10.4 33% 27.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 0.16 20% 0.3 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.6% Great: 49%
PNY USB 3.0 FD 32GB 296 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 11GB free, PID fa05 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	15.7% Very poor	Read 79.5 Write 10.5 Mixed 15.2 31% 35.1 MB/s	4K Read 5.36 4K Write 0.21 4K Mixed 0.76 53% 2.11 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 15.7% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 4500 C19 2x8GB 114 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	59.8% Above average	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 22 MC Mixed 17.1 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 22.7 SC Mixed 16.1 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 72.2 55% 72.2 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 140%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 103%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X APEX

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	176x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	54x
Core i9-9900KIntel $410Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	22x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	71x
RTX 3070Nvidia $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	17x
Titan X PascalNvidia $286Bench 121%, 8,692 samples	16x

SSD
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	17x
860 Pro 1TBSamsung $300Bench 112%, 8,179 samples	15x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	11x

RAM
Flare X DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GBG.SKILL $73Bench 98%, 54,616 samples	27x
CMT32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GBCorsairBench 91%, 17,500 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 91%, 1,151 samples	12x

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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $883

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