Asus MAXIMUS IX APEX

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 106% UFO	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 103%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	98.5% 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	70.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX APEX (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 4.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '18 at 09:19
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Memory 99.3 1-Core 153 2-Core 304 102% 185 Pts	4-Core 571 8-Core 844 88% 708 Pts	64-Core 829 51% 829 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36DD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1652 MHz, MLim: 1875 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.5% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 128 Parallax 127 104% 128 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 113 Splatting 103 88% 108 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 465GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	245% Outstanding	Read 2,356 Write 1,481 Mixed 1,291 377% 1,709 MB/s	4K Read 54.3 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 28.6 181% 66.7 MB/s	DQ Read 54.2 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 159 124% 163 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 245% Great: 254%
Kingston SM2280S3G2120G 120GB 4,240 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM01.W Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^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 4723 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 410 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 211 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3932285 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C2) HDA temperature 50 37 270584381490 (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 98 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2221 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5286 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5258 (F4) Unknown 100 100 60 (F5) Unknown 100 100 125 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2028240	70.1% Very good	Read 529 Write 198 Mixed 294 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 12.4 118% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 32.4 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 12.4 28% 54.3 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 89%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB-$139 17,545 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 9GB free Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5378 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 803 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 23 (A8) Unknown 100 100 65 (A9) Unknown 100 100 269 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 27 (AE) Unknown 100 100 327 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 153 657131241510 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 90 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7147 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4962 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7228 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	79.6% Very good	Read 421 Write 332 Mixed 350 82% 368 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 17.9 128% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 34.2 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 18.3 45% 88.9 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 99%
Crucial M500 240GB-$73 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 5GB free Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 22879 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1902 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 93 93 238 (AE) Unknown 100 100 445 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 54 201862807587 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 93 93 7 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 79046381318 (F7) Unknown 100 100 311307997 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1282351487	73.7% Very good	Read 503 Write 266 Mixed 345 82% 371 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 18.5 117% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 27.2 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 45 43% 64.3 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 91%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 47GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1082 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9126 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12496 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 29032 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6344 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 156 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201864380447 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 10 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 64 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 14983	67.5% Good	Read 95.7 Write 139 Mixed 115 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 3.58 4K Mixed 0.4 130% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 4133 C19 2x8GB 567 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 4133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	MC Read 50.7 MC Write 51.7 MC Mixed 36.6 132% 46.3 GB/s	SC Read 27.5 SC Write 54.1 SC Mixed 38.8 115% 40.1 GB/s	Latency 39.4 101% 39.4 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 131%

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Gaming 106%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX APEX

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	43x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	56x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	39x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	16x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $81Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	16x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $106Bench 394%, 276,089 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	24x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $30Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	23x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	13x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $805

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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