Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 70.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	50.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

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, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130111
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '16 at 17:00
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 4.6 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 80 2-Core 156 66% 109 Pts	4-Core 278 8-Core 480 46% 379 Pts	64-Core 485 30% 485 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1626 MHz, MLim: 1968 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.5% Good	Lighting 76.4 Reflection 78.6 Parallax 70.2 62% 75.1 fps	MRender 84 Gravity 72.6 Splatting 66.3 60% 74.3 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT07B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13927 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1865 (B1) Unknown 89 89 122 (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 86 60 14 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 122 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18628535873	50.6% Above average	Read 486 Write 128 Mixed 68.3 49% 228 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 58.5 4K Mixed 9.34 74% 29.5 MB/s	DQ Read 26.1 DQ Write 67.8 DQ Mixed 9.19 18% 34.4 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 917GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 37129568 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4533 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 4332612268 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14534 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1865 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 92 65 151388168 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 116 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 48 48 104074 (C2) HDA temperature 8 40 17179869192 (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 109452946575892 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30875878600 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28176160781	104% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 179 Mixed 168 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.3 97% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2133 CL11 Series 2x8GB 977 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.4% Average	MC Read 20 MC Write 14.8 MC Mixed 17.3 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 11.9 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 66.7 60% 66.7 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 78%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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 $94Bench 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 $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16