Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	159% 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.

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Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150714
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '17 at 19:21
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	JPN-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 89.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 256 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 456 8-Core 700 72% 578 Pts	64-Core 692 43% 692 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Sapphire(174B E324) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.11.4 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Lighting 75.6 Reflection 63.8 Parallax 95.5 62% 78.3 fps	MRender 63.7 Gravity 61.2 Splatting 82.5 58% 69.1 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 376GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	159% Outstanding	Read 1,846 Write 467 Mixed 696 217% 1,003 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 25.9 126% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 519 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 125 176% 329 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 159% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 231GB free Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22410 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1301 (B1) Unknown 85 85 173 (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 72 43 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 660 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48978619938	92.5% Outstanding	Read 492 Write 338 Mixed 338 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 73.7 4K Mixed 25.5 134% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 219 DQ Mixed 77.3 113% 215 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 49375720 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 18 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 899233 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 46 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 13 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 53 537853983 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 61 (C2) HDA temperature 31 47 51539607583 (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 -863288426453 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2567583559 (F2) Unknown 100 253 149351411	87.6% Excellent	Read 156 Write 149 Mixed 141 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.22 62% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 267GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20572584 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4700 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 107734964 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 47765 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2107 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 38655295524 (BD) vendor-specific 90 90 10 (BE) vendor-specific 71 46 504430621 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 295 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5082 (C2) HDA temperature 29 54 25769803805 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 6 20572584 (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 108615427979676 (F1) Unknown 100 253 835341940 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2136963808	62.7% Good	Read 108 Write 111 Mixed 70.3 72% 96.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.45 89% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 30.6 MC Mixed 25 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 21.4 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 95%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,764x
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 $94Bench 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: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $736

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