Asus MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z/GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (89th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 11 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.5% 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	115% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z/GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 09 '18 at 20:36
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 123 2-Core 240 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 474 64% 476 Pts	64-Core 480 30% 480 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 79%

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: 1618 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 411.63 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 119 Parallax 110 87% 112 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 104 Splatting 95.4 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 387 397 484 489 296 255 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 492 Mixed 390 SusWrite 385 100% 446 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 50.4 175% 63.5 MB/s	DQ Read 391 DQ Write 354 DQ Mixed 362 274% 369 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 16GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 508 Write 494 Mixed 377 102% 460 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 62.3 209% 73.3 MB/s	DQ Read 387 DQ Write 353 DQ Mixed 368 276% 369 MB/s
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
WD WD2500LPVT-00G33 250GB 74 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 232GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 95 96 97 97 97 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	54.4% Above average	Read 93 Write 92.8 Mixed 47.8 SusWrite 96.2 60% 82.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.7 143% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 54.4% Great: 62%
Seagate ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD 2TB 50,772 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 2BC10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 108 110 111 114 114 114 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	64.3% Good	Read 112 Write 83.7 Mixed 66.8 SusWrite 112 69% 93.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1 176% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-500.A01LF 2x8GB 924 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	63.1% Good	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 20 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 19.3 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 61%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z/GEN3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	66x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	55x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	21x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x
S510 120GBAdataBench 67%, 690 samples	7x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	9x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	9x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	8x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $580

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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