Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.5% 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	77.1% 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 VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151110
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '16 at 22:04
Run Duration	323 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 140 2-Core 279 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 764 79% 635 Pts	64-Core 765 47% 765 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3235) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Performing below potential (65^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.5% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 110 Parallax 112 85% 109 fps	MRender 91.5 Gravity 95.8 Splatting 79.9 72% 89.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 143GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 35968651 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 83580063580187 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 6 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 23 26 68721180695 (C2) HDA temperature 23 26 68721180695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 35968651 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 35968651 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 35968651 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 97 (EA) Unknown 0 0 59 (F1) Unknown 0 0 59 (F2) Unknown 0 0 27 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1507344	77.1% Very good	Read 506 Write 221 Mixed 310 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 14.5 128% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 94.5 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 42.7 64% 117 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 100 3681208 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 2913 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 27 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (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 76 73 420282392 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 51 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 55834574872 (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 -89666032238570 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3905078 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2410239	104% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 178 Mixed 170 134% 178 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.25 89% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 114%
General UDisk 549GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 3% 511GB free, PID null Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	4.38% Terrible	Read 13.2 Write 3.72 Mixed 5.61 8% 7.5 MB/s	4K Read 6.98 4K Write 0.004 4K Mixed 0.004 26% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 4.38% Great: 4%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4X4GF3000C15K4 4x4GB 260 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	MC Read 33.5 MC Write 38.3 MC Mixed 31.3 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 40.1 SC Mixed 29.8 82% 28.8 GB/s	Latency 52.4 76% 52.4 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 103%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,770x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	540x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	455x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	349x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	172x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	171x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $725

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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16