Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.1% 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	121% 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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 09 '17 at 19:43
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	31%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Memory 91.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 261 89% 160 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 631 68% 538 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 116 Parallax 109 92% 113 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 102 Splatting 102 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$217 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 607GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1737 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 225 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 69 51 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14325670674	121% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 483 Mixed 518 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 51.2 183% 67 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 311 DQ Mixed 158 164% 270 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 223GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5027491 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 115989886798705 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 544 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 245 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 53 60133015577 (C2) HDA temperature 25 53 60133015577 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5027491 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5027491 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5027491 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4095 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4052 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4052 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5285 (F4) Unknown 99 99 4128806	87.7% Excellent	Read 516 Write 271 Mixed 309 80% 365 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 22.6 136% 55 MB/s	DQ Read 227 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 69.7 100% 184 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C15 2x8GB 1,068 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.1% Good	MC Read 25.2 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 20.2 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 20.7 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 117%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,758x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	537x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	453x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	347x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	240x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	171x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	159x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	171x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $32	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