Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.33% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	100% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE (all builds)
Memory	60.4 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '16 at 21:51
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	82.4% Excellent	Memory 80.5 1-Core 134 2-Core 260 86% 158 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 684 71% 569 Pts	64-Core 726 45% 726 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4474 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.33% Terrible	Lighting 7.73 Reflection 11.2 Parallax 7.69 6% 8.88 fps	MRender 9.1 Gravity 6.8 Splatting 16.2 9% 10.7 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.33% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 356GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1780 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 56 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 65 63 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11544234221	100% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 394 Mixed 412 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 92.8 4K Mixed 27.1 149% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 261 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 24.7 83% 181 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 233GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 94 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 65 65 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8303251	97.9% Outstanding	Read 452 Write 405 Mixed 415 95% 424 MB/s	4K Read 40.1 4K Write 74.9 4K Mixed 42 154% 52.3 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 101 95% 148 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 48GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18197 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 401 (B1) Unknown 96 96 139 (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 67 58 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 45 (EB) Unknown 99 99 68 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9182591990	88.1% Excellent	Read 514 Write 325 Mixed 375 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 23.2 140% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 40.2 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 60.1 74% 122 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 665GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 166924976 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3089 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 703861 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 84 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 68 56 538705952 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6299 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 68719476768 (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 -101618926222796 (F1) Unknown 100 253 898165864 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17888594347	100% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 169 Mixed 170 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.26 93% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D240FSE.16FBR 4x16GB 111 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.8% Good	MC Read 25 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 22 70% 24.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 25.6 SC Mixed 20 59% 20.7 GB/s	Latency 79.5 50% 79.5 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 93%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	535x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	173x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	114x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	120x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	100x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	29x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	37x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	27x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $944

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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