Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	98.8% 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	54.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	23.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171226
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Feb 24 '18 at 20:18
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	37%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 91.7 1-Core 128 2-Core 245 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 709 69% 568 Pts	64-Core 703 44% 703 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	98.8% Outstanding	Lighting 126 Reflection 143 Parallax 118 103% 129 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 125 Splatting 103 91% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 6 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6839 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 848 (64) Unknown 100 100 11769472 (65) Unknown 100 100 3417408 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 142 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 94 94 1802 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2687 (B7) Unknown 96 96 41 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 193274773537 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 6 (E7) Temperature 91 91 9 (E9) Unknown 100 100 20842 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4384 (F1) Unknown 100 100 14065 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12552 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 6	54.1% Above average	Read 455 Write 252 Mixed 263 71% 323 MB/s	4K Read 13.4 4K Write 23.3 4K Mixed 9.93 45% 15.5 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 28.8 56% 115 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 92%
Kingston SH103S3240G 8TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 3TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 66 186966835 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1104 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6655929 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 20650202760397 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 149 (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 66 50 605552674 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3344 (C2) HDA temperature 34 50 81604378658 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 66 186966835 (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 -3100966387047 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9877267205 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8000264282	57.2% Above average	Read 110 Write 87.1 Mixed 58.8 63% 85.1 MB/s	4K Read 4.07 4K Write 5.76 4K Mixed 0.42 323% 3.42 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 60%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 93 218625344 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2457 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 111096539 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6890 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 905 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 261 (BC) Unknown 100 99 131074 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 60 48 672596008 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 48 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30420 (C2) HDA temperature 40 52 73014444072 (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 -72709501349599 (F1) Unknown 100 253 46140686164 (F2) Unknown 100 253 72908034724	81.4% Excellent	Read 170 Write 114 Mixed 135 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.16 56% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 114%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 167 6458 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9282 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 33884 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5222 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 777 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 119 119 245860 (C2) HDA temperature 115 98 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 1 1 65535 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	49.5% Average	Read 97.5 Write 75 Mixed 89.5 66% 87.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.11 65% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 4x8GB-$165 6,271 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 23.6 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 23.9 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 113%

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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 $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	68x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 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 $94Bench 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 $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 $176	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