Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	26.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	83.9% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150323
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 16 '16 at 19:41
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	Memory 95.9 1-Core 73.2 2-Core 145 65% 105 Pts	4-Core 254 8-Core 439 42% 347 Pts	64-Core 441 27% 441 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270-$140 47,409 User benchmarks, average bench 24% Sapphire(174B E271) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 21.19.151.3 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	26.7% Poor	Lighting 33.6 Reflection 30.3 Parallax 39.6 27% 34.5 fps	MRender 27.2 Gravity 28 Splatting 35.5 25% 30.2 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 26.7% Great: 26%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 211GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 178 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 56 (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 64 57 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1556072870	83.9% Excellent	Read 476 Write 378 Mixed 398 93% 417 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 56.8 4K Mixed 31.6 128% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 18.5 28% 51.2 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$29 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 413GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2283 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1336 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1768 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 478 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1243 (C2) HDA temperature 116 107 27 (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	80.3% Excellent	Read 142 Write 138 Mixed 132 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 1.22 4K Write 0.57 4K Mixed 0.36 101% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB-$580 15,105 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 280GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 336 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3899 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 26207201508 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14165 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2557 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 17180131987 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 73 51 73469198363 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 688 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4067 (C2) HDA temperature 27 49 -140737488355301 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 9 336 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 175 3083 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -2065879254470 (F1) Unknown 100 253 172335083 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3154010487	35.1% Below average	Read 78 Write 44.1 Mixed 53.1 44% 58.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 0.55 4K Mixed 0.69 116% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 35.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR3 2400 2OZ 2x4GB 143 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1200 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	56.4% Above average	MC Read 24.6 MC Write 16.2 MC Mixed 19.1 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 14.9 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 55%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z - $220

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	441x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	215x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	48x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	29x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	29x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBCorsairBench 66%, 6,389 samples	22x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	20x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $630

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) $29	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