Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	208% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	59.3 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '17 at 11:51
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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-$250 712,312 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 (99^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	Memory 90.8 1-Core 144 2-Core 280 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 544 8-Core 798 84% 671 Pts	64-Core 789 49% 789 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 92%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
2.5" SATA SSD 3MG2-P 496GB 52 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 232GB free Firmware: M150821 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 18 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 71 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 349 (A3) Unknown 100 100 117 (A4) Unknown 100 100 28601 (A5) Unknown 100 100 13 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 6 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 49 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 919 (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 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 87064 (F2) Unknown 100 100 81740 (F5) Unknown 100 100 114404	106% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 348 Mixed 416 95% 429 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 42.7 167% 63.2 MB/s	DQ Read 268 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 70.6 114% 217 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 115%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$25 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 193GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 130 100 642 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 175 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 29 (A9) Unknown 100 100 34 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 24 (AE) Unknown 100 100 105 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 214748364837 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5456 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4376 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2320	90.2% Outstanding	Read 465 Write 420 Mixed 450 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 33.6 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 5.57 126% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 209 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 37.2 90% 185 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 86%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	208% Outstanding	Read 1,373 Write 838 Mixed 1,063 242% 1,091 MB/s	4K Read 51.5 4K Write 173 4K Mixed 53.4 238% 92.6 MB/s	DQ Read 1,050 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 194 272% 522 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 208% Great: 243%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 64 127363733 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 55 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2665016 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -43288975375957 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 54 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 505020446 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 37 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 237 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 85899345950 (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 -80225694121588 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2102385600 (F2) Unknown 100 253 547356239	101% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 182 Mixed 135 121% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.28 96% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 96%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2TB free Firmware: CC95 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 177781511 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 157931535 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 41040 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2098 (B7) Unknown 1 1 151 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 66 48 572391458 (C2) HDA temperature 34 52 68719476770 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 29 16 177781511 (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 123055108036124 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3684237326 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2911116401	55.8% Above average	Read 108 Write 86.1 Mixed 86.6 70% 93.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.51 114% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 61%
PNY USB 3.0 FD 32GB 586 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 25GB free, PID 00ad Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	23.4% Poor	Read 105 Write 18.6 Mixed 16.4 42% 46.6 MB/s	4K Read 6.23 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.7 76% 2.6 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 23.4% Great: 27%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 4x16GB 1,054 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.2% Very good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23.9 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 31 SC Mixed 25.3 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 66.1 60% 66.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 131%

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Gaming 87%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME - $185

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	370x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	78x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	100x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	46x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	42x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	25x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 24GBCorsairBench 65%, 14 samples	14x

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Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $1,445

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $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