Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 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 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	106% 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	78.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	29.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 14 '16 at 13:47
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing below expectations (37^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 (97^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 137 2-Core 267 93% 167 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 700 72% 578 Pts	64-Core 754 47% 754 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.4% 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 3232) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6510 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 155 Reflection 105 Parallax 114 126% 125 fps	MRender 87.7 Gravity 91.9 Splatting 83.7 72% 87.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$122 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 599GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2856 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 675 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 76 58 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 95 95 4937 (EB) Unknown 99 99 198 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4492607792	75.2% Very good	Read 522 Write 415 Mixed 426 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 35.9 4K Mixed 18.6 82% 26.7 MB/s	DQ Read 93 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 52 52% 82.9 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 404GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5225 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1937 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 46 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 307 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3424962787	76% Very good	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 35.5 4K Mixed 22 89% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 41.7 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 46.7 43% 63.4 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 712GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 80 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 78 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 72 66 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 46 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1015410615	78.3% Very good	Read 525 Write 500 Mixed 514 115% 513 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 41.8 4K Mixed 12.2 73% 25.8 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 12.9 40% 86.9 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 135GB free Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 6464059 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -7559142439595 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 426 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 187 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 24 40 77312032792 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 77312032792 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6464059 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6464059 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6464059 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98784247808 (E9) Unknown 0 0 947 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1047 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1047 (F2) Unknown 0 0 581 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1310723	50.3% Above average	Read 374 Write 306 Mixed 273 71% 318 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 13.4 4K Mixed 7.95 45% 13.3 MB/s	DQ Read 76.3 DQ Write 77 DQ Mixed 43.7 42% 65.7 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 65%
Corsair Force LX 512GB 435 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 90GB free Firmware: N0402C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^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 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2289 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 208 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 362 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 43 (A3) Unknown 100 100 3 (A4) Unknown 100 100 11852 (A5) Unknown 100 100 20 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 11 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 92477 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 92477 (F2) Unknown 100 100 148942	77.1% Very good	Read 522 Write 428 Mixed 465 105% 472 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 41.5 4K Mixed 21.5 80% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 57.2 60% 99.1 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 106%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 71GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4282 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1672 (B1) Unknown 98 98 61 (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 76 61 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 574 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16194543838	66.8% Good	Read 379 Write 402 Mixed 391 88% 391 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 32.8 4K Mixed 20.7 75% 24.6 MB/s	DQ Read 102 DQ Write 82 DQ Mixed 41 44% 74.8 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 124%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 613 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 37.9 MC Write 40.9 MC Mixed 31.6 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 41.8 SC Mixed 30.6 91% 31.7 GB/s	Latency 52.5 76% 52.5 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 125%

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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 $245Bench 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 $90Bench 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 $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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Value: 46% - Average

Total price: $1,050

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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) $37	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