Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 44% Speed boat	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 29.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	27.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	61.1% 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 29 '17 at 11:35
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (40^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 0.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	29.4% Poor	Memory 47.4 1-Core 25.4 2-Core 48.5 27% 40.4 Pts	4-Core 63.6 8-Core 113 11% 88.4 Pts	64-Core 123 8% 123 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Asus(1043 0464) CLim: 1120 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	27.7% Poor	Lighting 33 Reflection 35.8 Parallax 47.7 27% 38.8 fps	MRender 31.6 Gravity 33.1 Splatting 40.3 29% 35 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 27.7% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 140GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 42101868 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -84576495990303 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 937 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 599 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 55 98787852323 (C2) HDA temperature 35 55 98787852323 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 42101868 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 42101868 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 42101868 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 111669149696 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4961 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3856 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3856 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5931 (F4) Unknown 100 100 4325395	61.1% Good	Read 485 Write 232 Mixed 293 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 45.2 4K Mixed 14 76% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 11.8 36% 79.4 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 85%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$80 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 149GB free Firmware: 12.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 159 157 5008 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5886 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18802 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5518 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1403 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5950 (C2) HDA temperature 110 91 37 (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 63 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.5% Average	Read 70.5 Write 70.3 Mixed 65.5 52% 68.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.38 100% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 58%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 304GB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	32.2% Below average	Read 76.7 Write 74.2 Mixed 64.4 91% 71.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.26 64% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Avexir DDR4-2666 CL15 8GB 2x8GB 125 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2667 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.3% Average	MC Read 17 MC Write 16.6 MC Mixed 20.7 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 6 SC Write 9.7 SC Mixed 8.1 23% 7.93 GB/s	Latency 171 23% 171 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 105%

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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 $499Bench 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 $56Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	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