Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


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 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	98.7% 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	69.1% 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 (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE (all builds)
Memory	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '18 at 10:04
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	18%

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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 i7-6700K-$170 588,978 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 (98^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 95.9 1-Core 134 2-Core 256 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 717 73% 591 Pts	64-Core 728 45% 728 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 859B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	98.7% Outstanding	Lighting 126 Reflection 140 Parallax 123 102% 129 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 125 Splatting 102 92% 113 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$85 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 205GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2308 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 848 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 65 50 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13851077463	100% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 406 Mixed 415 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 25.2 146% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 129 139% 234 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 134%
PNY CS1311 120GB SSD 4 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 80GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 37 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4231 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1761 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 97 97 8589934768 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2883658 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 99 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 56 (F1) Unknown 100 100 17500	69.1% Good	Read 496 Write 345 Mixed 349 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 69.3 4K Mixed 10 91% 35.7 MB/s	DQ Read 30.8 DQ Write 75 DQ Mixed 40.3 34% 48.7 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 75%
PNY CS1311 240GB SSD 7 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 34GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 171 2316 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3309 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3534 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1383 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5908 (C2) HDA temperature 109 94 34 (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	11.3% Very poor	Read 124 Write 90.4 Mixed 88.1 22% 101 MB/s	4K Read 1.23 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.25 3% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 11.3% Great: 15%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$50 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 38.2 MC Mixed 31.3 101% 35.3 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 40.3 SC Mixed 30.4 88% 30.8 GB/s	Latency 54.3 74% 54.3 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 104%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	544x
Core i5-6600KIntel $120Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	173x
Core i7-7700KIntel $232Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	122x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	100x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	29x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	38x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	28x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $705

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