Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	266% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (80%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE (all builds)
Memory	24.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	6.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 02 '16 at 16:22
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	80%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 116 2-Core 219 83% 143 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 766 66% 568 Pts	64-Core 775 48% 775 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6180) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 153 Parallax 130 115% 142 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 136 Splatting 111 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 311GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	266% Outstanding	Read 2,137 Write 1,416 Mixed 1,349 361% 1,634 MB/s	4K Read 49.1 4K Write 160 4K Mixed 60.2 236% 89.8 MB/s	DQ Read 624 DQ Write 386 DQ Mixed 231 246% 413 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 266% Great: 283%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 155720032 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 228 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 895303 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 347 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 88 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 76 66 403832856 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1066 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 51539607576 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 37366215475320 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3251248255 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7252193767	93.3% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 163 Mixed 152 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.18 81% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 113%
WD My Book 1140 2TB 10,094 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 556GB free, PID 1140 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	34.4% Below average	Read 77.5 Write 78.4 Mixed 64.7 94% 73.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.17 74% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 34.4% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSA.M16FAD 4x8GB 260 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2472 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 32.1 MC Mixed 26.9 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 34.7 SC Mixed 27.8 78% 27.5 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 96%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	534x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	173x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	114x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	120x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	99x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	29x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	37x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	27x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $939

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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