Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 90.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.1% 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	195% 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 MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180314
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 19:22
Run Duration	231 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Memory 92.6 1-Core 144 2-Core 267 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 765 76% 621 Pts	64-Core 774 48% 774 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 859B) ≥ 4GB; TURBO-GTX1080-8G, asus CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	94.1% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 120 Parallax 127 98% 122 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 120 Splatting 98.5 87% 107 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 110%
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Gigabyte(1458 3733) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	35.2% Below average	Lighting 46 Reflection 30.1 Parallax 37.7 38% 37.9 fps	MRender 36.7 Gravity 40.9 Splatting 35.7 31% 37.8 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 35.2% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 545s Series 512GB-$95 12,034 User benchmarks, average bench 107% 421GB free Firmware: LHF002C 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 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 196 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 88 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 131072 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 34 44 68722360354 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3315 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EC) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3315 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1064 (F9) Unknown 100 100 78 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0	70.9% Very good	Read 362 Write 221 Mixed 216 59% 266 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 46.6 4K Mixed 24.6 119% 37.4 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 43.4 67% 129 MB/s
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 128%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	195% Outstanding	Read 1,925 Write 1,149 Mixed 1,112 308% 1,395 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 22.4 152% 56.7 MB/s	DQ Read 54.2 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 19.7 36% 69.4 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 195% Great: 236%
PNY SSD2SC120GE2DA08B-T 120GB 109 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 3GB free Firmware: 502ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4113911 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 44298292693568 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1005 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 64 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 45 60132491293 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4113911 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4113911 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4113911 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2217 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2531 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2531 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2364	69.8% Good	Read 513 Write 152 Mixed 233 65% 299 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 18 127% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 32.2 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 13.6 28% 55 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 169GB free Firmware: CC3E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 15014103 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8002 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 66 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 13052354322 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11587 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3973 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590131221 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 44 34814361627 (C2) HDA temperature 27 56 38654705691 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 26 15014103 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -18592913402282 (F1) Unknown 100 253 701124610 (F2) Unknown 100 253 709322062	50.9% Above average	Read 86.2 Write 91.1 Mixed 86.6 66% 88 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.36 85% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 113GB free Firmware: CC3E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 149481528 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3569 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 19 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 17223922070 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3749 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1486 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065674 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 48 471466012 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 68719476764 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 27 149481528 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 16 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 61894773710414 (F1) Unknown 100 253 456367313 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1866058707	47.8% Average	Read 79.9 Write 86.6 Mixed 83.5 63% 83.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.32 81% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$118 9,846 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	81.9% Excellent	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 30.9 MC Mixed 25.9 82% 28.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 32.1 SC Mixed 25.4 72% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 87%

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Gaming 87%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	458x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	68x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	139x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	62x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	48x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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