Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 94.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.3% 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	116% 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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141001
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 14 '17 at 11:07
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	65%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.1 1-Core 139 2-Core 275 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 537 8-Core 536 72% 536 Pts	64-Core 523 32% 523 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 116 Parallax 105 91% 111 fps	MRender 96.1 Gravity 101 Splatting 89.9 78% 95.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13458 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 705 (B1) Unknown 95 95 103 (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 67 48 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 95 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19820805305	116% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 405 Mixed 414 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 45.8 185% 66.2 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 100 136% 249 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 101669600 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 980 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 4375186845 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13478 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 716 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 73 55 454754331 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 14 14 173731 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 64424509467 (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 57668525891497 (F1) Unknown 100 253 50191621330 (F2) Unknown 100 253 702111168592	99.3% Outstanding	Read 197 Write 149 Mixed 164 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.2 75% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix DMT451E6AFR8C-PB Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX DMT451E6AFR8C-PB Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	63.6% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 19.8 62% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.5 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 56.7 71% 56.7 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 64%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER - $283

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,622x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	446x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	223x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	405x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	229x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	102x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	79x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	109x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	105x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	91x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $920

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16