Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 71.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	66.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140417
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 26 '17 at 18:16
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	Memory 89.7 1-Core 80.5 2-Core 148 65% 106 Pts	4-Core 288 8-Core 474 47% 381 Pts	64-Core 488 30% 488 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6870 25,443 User benchmarks, average bench 15% Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	14.7% Very poor	Lighting 19.7 Reflection 13.9 Parallax 17.4 16% 17 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 14.1 Splatting 17.7 12% 14.4 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 14.7% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme II 120GB-$130 2,462 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 8136 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3277 (A6) Unknown 100 100 74 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 292 (A9) Unknown 100 100 163 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 179 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1136 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 123 528281305111 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1376 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 23164 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9319 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11605 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	66.6% Good	Read 409 Write 260 Mixed 333 74% 334 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 50.4 4K Mixed 21.2 93% 32.5 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 57.6 66% 115 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 101%
Seagate STM3250318AS 250GB 3,989 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 6GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 29831958 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 158883107 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20607 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3523 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 59 437911578 (C2) HDA temperature 26 41 42949672986 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 21 29831958 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 9507 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -107056354790462 (F1) Unknown 100 253 228010015 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3052175599	49.6% Average	Read 90.4 Write 82.3 Mixed 76 62% 82.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.54 113% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 68%
Hitachi HTS547550A9E384 500GB-$60 23,997 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 12GB free Firmware: JE3OA50A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 186 100 60129542145 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1405 (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 92 92 3504 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1149 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 21571305472 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65582 (BE) vendor-specific 75 49 421068825 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 352 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 13566159 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 140820 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	34.2% Below average	Read 65.1 Write 53.9 Mixed 58.2 44% 59.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.12 46% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 50%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 111940032 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12053 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21485504 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9447 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 5009 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590196745 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 55 437911578 (C2) HDA temperature 26 45 38654705690 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 24 111940032 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 40011915353569 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2868308931 (F2) Unknown 100 253 631974398	57.8% Above average	Read 109 Write 92.9 Mixed 86.6 72% 96.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.57 109% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 68%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 64GB-$9 17,023 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 34GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	16.5% Very poor	Read 31.1 Write 20.3 Mixed 25.4 31% 25.6 MB/s	4K Read 5.42 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 1.3 134% 2.92 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 16.5% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 22,320 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.9% Average	MC Read 18.9 MC Write 16.3 MC Mixed 17 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 9.2 SC Mixed 14.1 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 63%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z - $220

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	441x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	215x
FX-8320AMD $175Bench 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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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