Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.5% 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	278% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 20 '17 at 11:14
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	Memory 94.3 1-Core 140 2-Core 274 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 524 8-Core 780 81% 652 Pts	64-Core 781 48% 781 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 17C8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1634 MHz, MLim: 1942 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 125 Parallax 113 95% 118 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 108 Splatting 89.9 81% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 347GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	278% Outstanding	Read 2,549 Write 1,395 Mixed 1,396 392% 1,780 MB/s	4K Read 60.9 4K Write 139 4K Mixed 55.3 236% 84.9 MB/s	DQ Read 547 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 188 208% 357 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 278% Great: 254%
WD Red 8TB (2016)-$180 4,231 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: 83.H0A83 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 116 (03) Spinup time 143 143 38684852685 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 35 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 27 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 90 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 176094838815 (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	71.3% Very good	Read 126 Write 123 Mixed 121 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.48 117% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 97%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 125 125 25789595952 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 65 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 40 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 163210133537 (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	104% Outstanding	Read 195 Write 167 Mixed 144 126% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.21 96% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 108%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 972GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 41701736 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1035 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 45209560 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4900 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 625 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17180196869 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 51 521601054 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 58 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16363 (C2) HDA temperature 30 49 77309411358 (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 135145440940695 (F1) Unknown 100 253 40502933460 (F2) Unknown 100 253 389766633177	54.7% Above average	Read 67.3 Write 122 Mixed 98.7 72% 96 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 5.35 4K Mixed 0.58 185% 2.15 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 94%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 930GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 70 9046 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4133 (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 14569 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2426 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 371 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 52 206159544349 (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 61 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7878	82.2% Excellent	Read 137 Write 150 Mixed 133 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.62 4K Mixed 0.67 159% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	73.6% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 20.8 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 29 SC Mixed 23.1 67% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 58.9 68% 58.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 80%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,763x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	539x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	454x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	349x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	242x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	171x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	171x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	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