Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.3% 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	77.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '18 at 18:15
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 93.6 1-Core 130 2-Core 236 88% 153 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 724 70% 576 Pts	64-Core 723 45% 723 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.3% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 111 Parallax 102 86% 106 fps	MRender 93.1 Gravity 98.6 Splatting 88.2 76% 93.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 108GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5599 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1318 (B1) Unknown 91 91 101 (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 47 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 289 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39320878408	77.6% Very good	Read 516 Write 221 Mixed 180 67% 306 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 93 4K Mixed 12.4 111% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 12.9 79% 185 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 85%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 52GB free Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 8995944 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -18330920412339 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1328 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 402 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 30 128850985088 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8995944 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8995944 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8995944 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5836 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6877 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6877 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10751	50.7% Above average	Read 205 Write 96.7 Mixed 119 31% 140 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 14.3 117% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 9.34 25% 50 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 61%
WD Green 2TB (2010)-$100 5,498 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 351GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 169 1300 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 870 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5108 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 754 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 1 339 (BC) Unknown 100 1 8590066008 (BE) vendor-specific 75 54 470810649 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 225 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 644 (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	55% Above average	Read 89.9 Write 102 Mixed 78.3 67% 89.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.15 66% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 68%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 103GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 128 128 25789595936 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1089 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 126 126 32 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2685 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 469 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1092 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1092 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 227633987611 (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	72% Very good	Read 124 Write 127 Mixed 172 108% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.19 82% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2600 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 26.9 86% 30 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 34.7 SC Mixed 26.4 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 88%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,761x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	538x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	453x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	348x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	242x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

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