Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 105% UFO	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 101%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	137% 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	112% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	23 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	6 Days
Run Date	Feb 17 '17 at 18:10
Run Duration	233 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-6700K-$320 128,728 User benchmarks - Average bench 92% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	SC Int 135 SC Float 144 SC Mixed 139 112% 139 Pts	QC Int 459 QC Float 499 QC Mixed 496 110% 485 Pts	MC Int 699 MC Float 794 MC Mixed 756 112% 750 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 106%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$550 75,304 User benchmarks - Average bench 126% Asus(1043 8594) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	Lighting 461 Reflection 416 Parallax 435 135% 438 fps	MRender 235 Gravity 446 Splatting 265 124% 315 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 143%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$165 86,761 User benchmarks - Average bench 96% 83GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7681 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 431 (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 59 52 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 122 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32826545828	112% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 400 Mixed 419 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 47.9 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 50.3 197% 70.5 MB/s	DQ Read 48.9 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 29.8 63% 121 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 117%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$110 13,248 User benchmarks - Average bench 62% 44GB free Firmware: 501ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3713761 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 95734821061928 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 817 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 394 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 79 68724654109 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3713761 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3713761 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3713761 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19891 (EA) Unknown 0 0 18322 (F1) Unknown 0 0 18322 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11876	74% Very good	Read 511 Write 157 Mixed 227 65% 298 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 15.4 142% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 27.9 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 15.3 31% 58.7 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 77%
Kingston HyperX 120GB 780 User benchmarks - Average bench 59% 25GB free Firmware: 332ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 3675850 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 -42915313183100 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 924 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 183 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 50 64427786269 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3675850 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3675850 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3675850 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8545 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5778 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5778 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12757	71.7% Very good	Read 509 Write 137 Mixed 196 61% 281 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 15.5 138% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 29.3 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 15.5 31% 59.1 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 73%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$68 10,120 User benchmarks - Average bench 72% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 5400 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 177 4100 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 215 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2831 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 89 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7650 (C2) HDA temperature 117 101 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	87% Excellent	Read 171 Write 132 Mixed 139 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.27 107% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 86%
Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 500GB-$59 6,804 User benchmarks - Average bench 59% 243GB free Firmware: JP2OA3MA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 98 (03) Spinup time 117 117 12897681603 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4770 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 31 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 41316 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1096 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5756 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5756 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 223339348004 (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 200 200 0	59.1% Above average	Read 104 Write 102 Mixed 105 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.4 99% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 74%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$42 33,323 User benchmarks - Average bench 52% 84GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 147 5375 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3183 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 18 18 60247 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1186 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 772 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3174 (C2) HDA temperature 110 97 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 200 195 144 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 23 23 56822 (F1) Unknown 200 200 13093555450 (F2) Unknown 200 200 48692751925	29% Poor	Read 51 Write 49.7 Mixed 63.8 42% 54.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.23 75% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 29% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB 1,512 User benchmarks - Average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 38.4 MC Write 39.2 MC Mixed 31.4 104% 36.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.3 SC Write 43.9 SC Mixed 31 93% 32.4 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 105%

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Gaming 100%

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Desktop 114%

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Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME - $454

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $320Bench 92%, 128,728 samples	833x
Core i7-7700KIntel $309Bench 100%, 50,915 samples	34x
Core i5-6600KIntel $171Bench 90%, 78,233 samples	15x

GPU
GTX 980 TiNvidia $560Bench 100%, 45,986 samples	242x
GTX 1080Nvidia $550Bench 126%, 75,304 samples	211x
GTX 1070Nvidia $390Bench 99%, 133,739 samples	81x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $350Bench 221%, 17,495 samples	184x
850 Pro 512GBSamsung $219Bench 101%, 11,008 samples	119x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $165Bench 96%, 86,761 samples	99x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 80%, 1,512 samples	37x
F4 DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 96%, 755 samples	25x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $151Bench 88%, 3,189 samples	24x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,684

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-7700K $309	Nvidia GTX 1070 $390	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $96
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 $270	AMD RX 480 $260	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $136
Intel Core i5-7600K $224	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $239	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $165

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $50	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $132	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $34
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $83	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $714	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $23
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB $44	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $133	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $13