Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 100% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 88.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	109% 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	203% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 17:28
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	ARE-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 143 2-Core 279 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 777 74% 609 Pts	64-Core 777 48% 777 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2775 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	109% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 155 Parallax 121 106% 135 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 186 Splatting 130 121% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 348GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5824 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3884 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 108 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5874273514	109% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 415 Mixed 425 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 78 4K Mixed 47.1 166% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 258 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 110 122% 205 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 208GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	203% Outstanding	Read 1,600 Write 1,070 Mixed 1,283 292% 1,318 MB/s	4K Read 45.2 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 53.9 199% 71.7 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 144 145% 238 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 203% Great: 283%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 766GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 193 179 5341 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4023 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3125 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1780 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 795 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12684 (C2) HDA temperature 117 109 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	77.4% Very good	Read 136 Write 134 Mixed 123 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.25 105% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 96%
Seagate ST33000651AS 3TB-$229 5,029 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 458GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 102494507 (03) Spinup time 91 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12236 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 61330480 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12048 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8610 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 1052283175160 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 47 655949859 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 4331 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13778 (C2) HDA temperature 35 53 85899345955 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 20 10 102494507 (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 -120972048850671 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4142606110 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2161998817	65.1% Good	Read 117 Write 110 Mixed 113 86% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.48 106% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2666 C15 4x8GB 182 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	MC Read 33.6 MC Write 36 MC Mixed 29.2 94% 32.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 40.3 SC Mixed 29.8 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 116%

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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 $250Bench 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 $499Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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