Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 54% Yacht	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 38.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	35.7% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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 (55%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 16 '17 at 22:59
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	55%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$170 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 1.05 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	38.5% Below average	Memory 69.5 1-Core 50 2-Core 58.6 41% 59.4 Pts	4-Core 44.4 8-Core 81.6 8% 63 Pts	64-Core 81.4 5% 81.4 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 89%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 2966) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	35.7% Below average	Lighting 46.8 Reflection 43.1 Parallax 38.2 38% 42.7 fps	MRender 37.7 Gravity 40.6 Splatting 36.2 31% 38.2 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 35.7% Great: 36%
Nvidia GeForce GT 730 164,888 User benchmarks, average bench 5% EVGA(3842 3733) 2GB CLim: 901 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	7.09% Terrible	Lighting 8.93 Reflection 7.73 Parallax 9.19 7% 8.62 fps	MRender 11 Gravity 7.37 Splatting 6.96 7% 8.43 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.09% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$129 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 238GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8611 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 571 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 76 68 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 112 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8861931	95.9% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 494 Mixed 512 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 63.5 4K Mixed 37.3 127% 43.7 MB/s	DQ Read 131 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 77.1 71% 109 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 124%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 174 170 4266 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1756 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5264 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 146 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 78 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3897 (C2) HDA temperature 122 117 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	84.7% Excellent	Read 143 Write 152 Mixed 141 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.29 110% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 86%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 652GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5 (03) Spinup time 171 168 2408 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 619 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10698 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 597 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 171 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 540 (C2) HDA temperature 114 99 29 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	83.4% Excellent	Read 170 Write 121 Mixed 161 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.21 92% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown ALP4C81F2400CL15 2x8GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	30.4% Below average	MC Read 8.5 MC Write 9.1 MC Mixed 14.6 31% 10.7 GB/s	SC Read 5.1 SC Write 7.2 SC Mixed 8.5 20% 6.93 GB/s	Latency 103 39% 103 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 30.4% Great: 74%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA - $378

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,166x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	179x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	342x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	235x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	62x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	57x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	81x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	56x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	52x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $1,206

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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