Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 93.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	81.1% 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	88.2% 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, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 24 '18 at 14:44
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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 way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.9% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 134 2-Core 267 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 743 77% 620 Pts	64-Core 738 46% 738 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.1% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 110 Parallax 101 86% 105 fps	MRender 92 Gravity 95.8 Splatting 79 72% 88.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 188GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1074 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 944 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 70 49 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 28 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3795303277	88.2% Excellent	Read 499 Write 404 Mixed 416 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 91 4K Mixed 26.2 137% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 43.2 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 123 79% 89 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 124%
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 49GB free Firmware: 5.8.2a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5523592 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -4733053943222 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2434 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 767 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 1009320198169 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5523592 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5523592 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5523592 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22850 (EA) Unknown 0 0 23246 (F1) Unknown 0 0 23246 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20193	67.3% Good	Read 493 Write 133 Mixed 202 60% 276 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 97 4K Mixed 16.8 109% 45.9 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 164 DQ Mixed 52.1 73% 134 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 80%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 624GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 168 2300 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1794 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12258 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1372 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 287 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1528 (C2) HDA temperature 118 104 25 (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	96.1% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 169 Mixed 161 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 1.18 4K Write 2.92 4K Mixed 0.38 145% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 109%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$64 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 54GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 42 (03) Spinup time 187 179 5608 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8832 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 34294 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4184 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1489 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 130 130 212178 (C2) HDA temperature 126 97 24 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	47.5% Average	Read 80.3 Write 85.4 Mixed 78.6 61% 81.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.23 63% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	86.7% Excellent	MC Read 33.1 MC Write 33.5 MC Mixed 24.3 87% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 33.7 SC Mixed 27.8 78% 27.3 GB/s	Latency 55.8 72% 55.8 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 95%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	539x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	173x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	115x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	121x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	100x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	29x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	37x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	27x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $724

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16