Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	154% 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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920x1080x4294967296 szín
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '16 at 19:39
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	HUN-User
Background CPU	36%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 94.7 2-Core 213 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 366 50% 370 Pts	64-Core 370 23% 370 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Nvidia(10DE 1C03) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.5% Good	Lighting 78.3 Reflection 80.5 Parallax 76.4 64% 78.4 fps	MRender 71.9 Gravity 72.7 Splatting 74.3 60% 73 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 85GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 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 22264252 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -108233175859093 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 25 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 40 48 90197458984 (C2) HDA temperature 40 48 90197458984 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 22264252 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 22264252 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 22264252 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294963446 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10 (F2) Unknown 0 0 66 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1835027	61.9% Good	Read 465 Write 187 Mixed 268 67% 306 MB/s	4K Read 18.9 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 11.4 102% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 25.3 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 11.5 25% 47.9 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 85%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 128GB-$110 2,093 User benchmarks, average bench 165% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1731 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1088 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 79 (AE) Unknown 99 99 57 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 433 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 46 25 54 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 10112 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4240 (F2) Unknown 99 99 3541	154% Outstanding	Read 1,659 Write 632 Mixed 887 232% 1,060 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 21.2 159% 67.9 MB/s	DQ Read 34.9 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 21.3 33% 59.9 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 154% Great: 188%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 181GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 111 104 7441 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2743 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4389 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2662 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 342 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 186 186 43030 (C2) HDA temperature 111 103 36 (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	54.9% Above average	Read 96.4 Write 94.7 Mixed 109 76% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.18 76% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 5,376 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 39.9 MC Write 43 MC Mixed 38.3 115% 40.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 41.3 SC Mixed 30.9 89% 31.2 GB/s	Latency 49.7 80% 49.7 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 111%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	544x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	173x
Core i7-7700KIntel $249Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	122x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	100x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	29x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	38x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	28x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $709

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16