Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 90.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	111% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	268% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	25.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 23 '18 at 03:13
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	52%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 137 2-Core 264 93% 165 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 756 74% 606 Pts	64-Core 791 49% 791 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3366) ≥ 4GB; MSI AERO CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2522 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 147 Reflection 158 Parallax 147 120% 151 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 142 Splatting 117 103% 127 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 465GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1030 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 174 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 55 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3479990581	101% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 350 Mixed 356 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 74.3 4K Mixed 40.9 155% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 108 126% 220 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 126%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 454GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 5 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15416 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2945 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (B3) Unknown 99 99 5 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 5 (BB) vendor-specific 53 53 468765 (BE) vendor-specific 76 51 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 468765 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 42 (EB) Unknown 99 99 911 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14946608491	92.6% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 350 Mixed 359 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 64.4 4K Mixed 27.9 133% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 94.3 114% 202 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 126%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 253GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	268% Outstanding	Read 2,713 Write 1,435 Mixed 1,466 412% 1,871 MB/s	4K Read 55.5 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 36.7 195% 70.8 MB/s	DQ Read 463 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 135 152% 266 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 268% Great: 254%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 171 7983 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1493 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4572 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 953 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 70 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5356 (C2) HDA temperature 121 111 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	75.7% Very good	Read 128 Write 136 Mixed 132 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.28 115% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB-$560 34,441 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	MC Read 34.7 MC Write 36.2 MC Mixed 28.2 94% 33 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 34.8 SC Mixed 25.1 75% 26.1 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 105%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	458x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	68x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	139x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	62x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	48x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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