Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	105% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171227
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '18 at 18:28
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	21%

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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 93.5 1-Core 140 2-Core 282 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 775 77% 630 Pts	64-Core 778 48% 778 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1675 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.6% Good	Lighting 75.5 Reflection 79.9 Parallax 71.3 62% 75.6 fps	MRender 82.7 Gravity 72.2 Splatting 64.4 59% 73.1 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba HG5d Q Series 128GB 2,624 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: HTRAN101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10923 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2589 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 181 181 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 243 (C2) HDA temperature 73 59 176094248987 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	105% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 445 Mixed 497 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 94.3 4K Mixed 42.1 140% 53.4 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 140 149% 248 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 102%
Toshiba THNSNH128GBST 240GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 8GB free Firmware: Z33130RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 397 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 115 (A5) Unknown 100 100 98788573241 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 4 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 42 249108103206 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 81606148123 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 454 (EA) Unknown 100 100 540 (F1) Unknown 253 253 490 (F2) Unknown 253 253 418 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	71.8% Very good	Read 509 Write 302 Mixed 356 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 20.2 4K Write 81.7 4K Mixed 5.36 81% 35.8 MB/s	DQ Read 239 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 7.74 70% 163 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 72%
Seagate ST31000528ASQ 1TB 485 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 383GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6180 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3146 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 30105 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3104 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 54 353370133 (C2) HDA temperature 76 52 403701784 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 7566914 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	31.7% Below average	Read 64.7 Write 45.6 Mixed 73.5 47% 61.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.23 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.22 53% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 71%
WD Black 2.5" 250GB (2010)-$50 8,525 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 232GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 161 137 941 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2694 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9223 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2638 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 216 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 94 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 315759 (C2) HDA temperature 112 91 31 (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 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 90 90 7674 (F1) Unknown 200 200 10460865300 (F2) Unknown 200 200 14020554362 (FE) Unknown 161 161 39	50.7% Above average	Read 86.2 Write 90.2 Mixed 87.4 66% 88 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.38 95% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 52%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 24GB free Firmware: AP24 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 16723182 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12943 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 128579023 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15678 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4704 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 30065557530 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 44 39176175647 (C2) HDA temperature 31 56 51539607583 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 23 16723182 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	41.8% Average	Read 77.9 Write 67.5 Mixed 75.3 56% 73.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.34 88% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$299 20,912 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	84% Excellent	MC Read 30.3 MC Write 31.9 MC Mixed 26.2 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 33.7 SC Mixed 26.4 76% 26.5 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 91%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,764x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	539x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	454x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	349x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	242x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $736

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