Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 94.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	110% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 25 '18 at 16:35
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	SRB-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 (100^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 128 2-Core 244 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 713 77% 611 Pts	64-Core 714 44% 714 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 8.1 20% 8.1 fps
Poor: 3% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 232GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2361 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 876 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 460 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7578532233	110% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 402 Mixed 414 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 85.8 4K Mixed 45.2 171% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 120 135% 231 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 203GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4020 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1038 (B1) Unknown 97 97 56 (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 66 49 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 193 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30840519568	110% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 402 Mixed 409 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 83.7 4K Mixed 44.8 168% 57.5 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 110 136% 241 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2TB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 144119000 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2410 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8140800 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3090 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 815 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 458759 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 504823838 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23886 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 51539607582 (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 54803782698095 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13764273450 (F2) Unknown 100 253 34628722712
Poor: 55% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 151743643 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1482 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6451814 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2039 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 801 (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 71 55 487981085 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1548 (C2) HDA temperature 29 11 47244640285 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 151743643 (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 53734335841411 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4783519504 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7685491058	130% Outstanding	Read 250 Write 202 Mixed 219 168% 224 MB/s	4K Read 1.5 4K Write 3.72 4K Mixed 0.33 168% 1.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 51,435 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.8% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 17.9 MC Mixed 15 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 18.2 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 108%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	458x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 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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Total price: $1,205

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