Asus MAXIMUS VI EXTREME

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	83.7% 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 VI EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140605
Uptime	8.6 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '17 at 15:11
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 83.8 1-Core 121 2-Core 235 82% 146 Pts	4-Core 389 8-Core 485 56% 437 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 111 Parallax 104 117% 119 fps	MRender 92.1 Gravity 97.8 Splatting 79.6 72% 89.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 480GB 11,256 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 195GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	123% Outstanding	Read 777 Write 756 Mixed 712 167% 748 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 10.9 116% 50.7 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 359 DQ Mixed 66.3 116% 222 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 182%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 80GB 63 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 68GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	49.7% Average	Read 361 Write 78.6 Mixed 129 41% 190 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 10.7 88% 35.9 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 78.4 DQ Mixed 71.2 66% 104 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 50%
Corsair Neutron GTX SS 125GB 39 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: M206 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 1 1 62006 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 549 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28556 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 806 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 283 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 283 (C2) HDA temperature 29 0 68721901597 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 369 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 76 (E7) Temperature 98 98 3 (EA) Unknown 100 100 37946 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10773 (F2) Unknown 100 100 10251 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 226514	83.7% Excellent	Read 489 Write 273 Mixed 348 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 19.4 123% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 60.1 103% 198 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 92%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$68 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 937GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 169 6250 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 974 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26647 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 453 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 101 101 298854 (C2) HDA temperature 121 111 29 (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	58.5% Above average	Read 105 Write 99.2 Mixed 58.7 65% 87.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.2 78% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 984 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.3% Average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 17.8 MC Mixed 14.3 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 18 SC Mixed 15.3 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 73.9 54% 73.9 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 89%

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Typical MAXIMUS VI EXTREME Builds (Compare 423 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 77%

Battleship

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 63%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI EXTREME - $580

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	197x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	136x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	39x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	23x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	22x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	17x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	12x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBCorsairBench 63%, 2,608 samples	13x
HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBKingstonBench 70%, 5,910 samples	12x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	11x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $974

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16