Asus Maximus III Formula

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 77.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	68.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	37.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Maximus III Formula (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121019
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '17 at 10:01
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-750-$72 43,796 User benchmarks, average bench 62% LGA1156, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz, turbo 2.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	77.3% Very good	Memory 97.3 1-Core 82.9 2-Core 165 70% 115 Pts	4-Core 335 8-Core 322 44% 329 Pts	64-Core 331 20% 331 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 36DA) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1774 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	68.6% Good	Lighting 88.8 Reflection 86.3 Parallax 76.8 72% 84 fps	MRender 82.7 Gravity 76.6 Splatting 68.6 61% 75.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Green SATA M.2 120GB-$47 6,576 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z3311000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 20 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 77 (A5) Unknown 100 100 146036097111 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 40 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 50 214748364837 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 124555821085 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 231 (EA) Unknown 100 100 406 (F1) Unknown 253 253 336 (F2) Unknown 253 253 299 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	37.4% Below average	Read 336 Write 71.7 Mixed 103 37% 170 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 33 4K Mixed 3.37 52% 18.7 MB/s	DQ Read 167 DQ Write 73.5 DQ Mixed 1.26 32% 80.7 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 73%
Toshiba MQ01ABC100 1TB 261 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 876GB free Firmware: AQ001U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^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 3431 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7259 (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 90 90 4399 (0A) Spinup retry count 244 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4414 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 22 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 161 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 109620 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231929020448 (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 97 97 1503 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 253 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	57.9% Above average	Read 98.5 Write 103 Mixed 96 75% 99.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.21 75% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GB 82,857 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	52.5% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 17.6 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.8 SC Write 11.6 SC Mixed 14.9 37% 13.1 GB/s	Latency 49.2 81% 49.2 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 51%

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

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Typical Maximus III Formula Builds (Compare 132 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation 26%

Raft

Motherboard: Asus Maximus III Formula

CPU
Core i7 860Intel $339Bench 64%, 51,451 samples	57x
Core i7 870Intel $100Bench 66%, 37,228 samples	26x
Core i7 K 875Intel $180Bench 70%, 2,354 samples	13x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	7x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	7x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	6x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	6x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	62x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	45x
14GBUnknownBench 35%, 9,406 samples	5x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $567

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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