Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 93.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.8% 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	193% 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 10:15
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 147 2-Core 293 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 753 76% 619 Pts	64-Core 787 49% 787 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2335 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 118 Parallax 109 90% 112 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 105 Splatting 101 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	193% Outstanding	Read 1,862 Write 841 Mixed 1,041 274% 1,248 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 161 4K Mixed 37 201% 81.1 MB/s	DQ Read 45.9 DQ Write 298 DQ Mixed 30.5 65% 125 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 193% Great: 243%
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 14GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd 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 100 100 771 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2081 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 66 (A3) Unknown 100 100 25 (A4) Unknown 100 100 74925 (A5) Unknown 100 100 155 (A6) Unknown 100 100 32 (A7) Unknown 100 100 71 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 30 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 293 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 77535 (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 10 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 340705 (F2) Unknown 100 100 684826 (F5) Unknown 100 100 599400	102% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 361 Mixed 422 96% 432 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 36 143% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 389 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 72.8 129% 256 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 103%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 972GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 203934304 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 678 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8455748 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2336 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 599 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 74 64 437846042 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1586 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 42949672986 (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 136975097007061 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9134685802 (F2) Unknown 100 253 56885446831
Poor: 53% Great: 110%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 972GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 169 2200 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1804 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4901 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1469 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 503 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1305 (C2) HDA temperature 119 106 24 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 50% Great: 108%
Seagate Expansion+ 1TB 4,125 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 605GB free Firmware: A200 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2465 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 90 83 3246 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6832 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10689 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 21 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1722 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 8 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 60 210454249501 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 99 209 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 894 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 21 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 131267	52.1% Above average	Read 98.7 Write 82.6 Mixed 91.3 68% 90.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.36 92% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 71%
Toshiba External USB 3.0 500GB 91 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 70GB free Firmware: 0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1497 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 9604 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 21639 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 621 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 295 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 35970 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 197569347618 (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 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 260 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 198 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	40.8% Average	Read 73.5 Write 68.4 Mixed 73.6 54% 71.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.19 63% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 60%

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 @ 3090 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.1% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 16.2 53% 18.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 17.5 48% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 52.3 76% 52.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 105%

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Gaming 87%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	458x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	69x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	139x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	63x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	48x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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Total price: $1,000

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16