Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


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 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.3% 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	216% 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 RANGER (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 23 '17 at 06:20
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 83.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 267 87% 159 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 681 70% 566 Pts	64-Core 738 46% 738 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4991) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1552 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 117 Parallax 105 90% 111 fps	MRender 95.1 Gravity 102 Splatting 95 80% 97.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01F0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	216% Outstanding	Read 2,009 Write 974 Mixed 1,317 316% 1,433 MB/s	4K Read 39.8 4K Write 185 4K Mixed 29.8 196% 84.8 MB/s	DQ Read 423 DQ Write 446 DQ Mixed 28.9 134% 299 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 216% Great: 230%
Intel 525 Series mSATA 240GB-$150 119 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 53GB free Firmware: LLKi Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 80324478376195 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1451 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 292 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 53 80 51544850485 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 292 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 151804 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 52 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 151804 (F2) Unknown 100 100 164845 (F9) Unknown 100 100 3524	78.6% Very good	Read 503 Write 275 Mixed 314 80% 364 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 16.4 135% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 89.8 63% 76.3 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 95%
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 22GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -38122128817693 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1548 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 586 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 3796229 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 586 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 253651 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 43 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 253651 (F2) Unknown 100 100 192841 (F9) Unknown 100 100 6163	70.9% Very good	Read 518 Write 156 Mixed 231 66% 302 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 14.7 132% 53 MB/s	DQ Read 36.1 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 47.9 44% 65.7 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 88%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 170GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 4116 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2997 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11290 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2280 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 329 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2667 (C2) HDA temperature 104 92 43 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65.8% Good	Read 133 Write 96 Mixed 103 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.31 95% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 13,205 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.3% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.8 76% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 28.6 SC Mixed 23.8 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 73.9 54% 73.9 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 103%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,764x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	539x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	454x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	349x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	242x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	171x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	171x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $736

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	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) $37	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