Asus MAXIMUS VI FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.9% 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	91.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '17 at 10:23
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 112 2-Core 219 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 604 63% 504 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 113 Parallax 103 94% 110 fps	MRender 92.9 Gravity 101 Splatting 81.2 74% 91.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 486GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2236 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 277 (B1) Unknown 98 98 22 (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 68 50 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 90 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48389410092	91.9% Outstanding	Read 380 Write 304 Mixed 315 74% 333 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 81.2 4K Mixed 38.6 159% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 273 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 131 123% 194 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 133%
Plextor M5S 128GB-$75 5,727 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 119GB free Firmware: 1.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th 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 100 100 811 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2094 (B1) Unknown 100 100 45984 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 223 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 49 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0	83.7% Excellent	Read 504 Write 199 Mixed 281 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 30.8 4K Write 80.2 4K Mixed 34.3 133% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 68.3 98% 183 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 84%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 102GB free Firmware: 0309 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th 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 17363 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3049 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 93 93 236 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 22982490394041 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 85 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 73 (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 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 93 93 7 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	66.3% Good	Read 482 Write 213 Mixed 336 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 8.21 102% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 127 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 8.15 38% 84.4 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 74%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 175 175 53018 (03) Spinup time 181 176 5908 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6390 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 13050 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1551 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 177 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 176 176 74561 (C2) HDA temperature 122 85 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 6 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	74.2% Very good	Read 141 Write 118 Mixed 123 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.18 84% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 83%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 172GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3 (02) Throughput performance 55 55 8651 (03) Spinup time 69 66 9409 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6855 (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 17624 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3246 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1391 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 33 287763464222 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 16 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 14913	59.5% Above average	Read 76.1 Write 131 Mixed 125 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.58 122% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,062 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.2% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 15.5 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 19.1 SC Mixed 16.3 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 63%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 51%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI FORMULA - $400

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	495x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	159x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	49x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	65x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	54x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	35x
870 EVO 1TBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 129,044 samples	26x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	32x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	26x

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Total price: $747

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 $45	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