Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 141% UFO	Desktop 106% UFO	Workstation 121% UFO


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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 105%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	133% 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	241% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	29.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 18 '18 at 20:33
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	UKR-User
Background CPU	29%

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 i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 156 2-Core 311 102% 187 Pts	4-Core 622 8-Core 866 94% 744 Pts	64-Core 867 54% 867 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 3030 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 216 Parallax 186 150% 196 fps	MRender 137 Gravity 186 Splatting 136 124% 153 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$194 3,881 User benchmarks, average bench 158% 341GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	241% Outstanding	Read 2,027 Write 1,361 Mixed 1,541 364% 1,643 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 46.5 177% 67.8 MB/s	DQ Read 614 DQ Write 411 DQ Mixed 106 189% 377 MB/s
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 241% Great: 211%
HyperX Savage 120GB-$80 7,194 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 50GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^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 0 (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 100 100 8895 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1381 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 265 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3342458 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 583 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979413028 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6190 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5240 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4664 (F4) Unknown 100 100 51 (F5) Unknown 100 100 122 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1770016	99% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 416 Mixed 457 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 14 132% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 351 DQ Mixed 13.8 102% 236 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 104%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 177GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 169 1975 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4690 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16341 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2144 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 731 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3961 (C2) HDA temperature 109 90 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	81.8% Excellent	Read 147 Write 138 Mixed 138 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.25 92% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 109%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 126GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 64 135953485 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1977 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 141885925 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 72022306590843 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 629 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 131074 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 58 622133283 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1206 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21233 (C2) HDA temperature 35 42 60129542179 (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 -105428562212848 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23032591486 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24866654163	68.4% Good	Read 139 Write 99.1 Mixed 99 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.2 74% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX3000C15/16GX Corsair CMK16GX4M1B3000C15 32GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 3000, 3000 MHz 16384, 16384 MB Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	94.5% Outstanding	MC Read 35.2 MC Write 36.2 MC Mixed 29 96% 33.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 39.6 SC Mixed 29 82% 28.8 GB/s	Latency 55.9 72% 55.9 ns
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 103%

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Gaming 106%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA - $378

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,161x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	179x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	341x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	234x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	62x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	57x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	81x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	56x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	52x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $1,187

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16