Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	71.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	52.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150323
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 15 '17 at 10:05
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.05 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.8% Good	Memory 90.5 1-Core 72.5 2-Core 141 63% 101 Pts	4-Core 267 8-Core 419 42% 343 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1631 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.9% Very good	Lighting 90.6 Reflection 94.7 Parallax 83.8 74% 89.7 fps	MRender 92.3 Gravity 83.5 Splatting 76.7 68% 84.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 4 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14534 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2820 (B1) Unknown 87 87 457 (B3) Unknown 99 99 4 (B5) Unknown 99 99 4 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 4 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 30 30 70383 (EB) Unknown 99 99 571 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42532481969	52.9% Above average	Read 491 Write 29.7 Mixed 348 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 47.7 4K Mixed 22.5 89% 31 MB/s	DQ Read 82.5 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 47.1 50% 81.9 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 110%
Hitachi HDT721075SLA380 750GB 736 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 80GB free Firmware: ST4OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 3 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 129 129 21496856898 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4541 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 33 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 48107 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4241 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5126 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5126 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 227634118683 (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 7	45.5% Average	Read 77.9 Write 80.7 Mixed 65.3 56% 74.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.25 65% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2400 C10 2x4GB 117 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48% Average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 15.7 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 12.3 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 87%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

Raft

Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z - $220

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	441x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	214x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	48x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	29x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	29x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBCorsairBench 66%, 6,389 samples	22x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	20x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $630

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