Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 58% Gunboat


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 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	60.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 26 '17 at 07:28
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	5%

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-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 144 2-Core 288 98% 176 Pts	4-Core 575 8-Core 801 87% 688 Pts	64-Core 799 50% 799 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Nano-$450 504 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Asus(1043 04A4) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Lighting 76.7 Reflection 55.2 Parallax 99.9 62% 77.3 fps	MRender 55.7 Gravity 77.1 Splatting 71.3 56% 68 fps
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 59%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 302GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1295 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1017 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 66 61 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 71 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3098311597
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 151GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6617 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4511 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 59 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 263 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3604744276	100% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 420 Mixed 422 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 47.3 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 26.8 159% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 46.7 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 114 103% 149 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 124%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 85GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19471 (0C) Power cycle count 88 88 11275 (B1) Unknown 96 96 128 (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 71 57 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 948 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11111124615	59.9% Above average	Read 498 Write 239 Mixed 350 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 21.6 4K Write 56.5 4K Mixed 13.7 80% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 24.1 DQ Write 59.9 DQ Mixed 14.5 19% 32.8 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 79766304 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6870 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11535251 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4911 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3956 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 59 588578851 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 115 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31769 (C2) HDA temperature 35 41 77309411363 (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 -112468013611934 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4996633180 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9256965070	103% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 167 Mixed 170 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.2 80% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 113%
Seagate ST1500DM003-9YN16G 1.5TB 5,186 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 441GB free Firmware: CC4C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222622904 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 22280 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 49379850 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16916 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 89 89 11389 (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 70 57 622198814 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2546 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 31 31 139635 (C2) HDA temperature 30 43 77309411358 (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 -43550968375956 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -43595959553672 (F2) Unknown 100 253 34218831614039	68% Good	Read 129 Write 109 Mixed 99.8 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.36 91% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 40.1 MC Write 40.5 MC Mixed 33 108% 37.9 GB/s	SC Read 23.3 SC Write 43.7 SC Mixed 33.5 96% 33.5 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 104%

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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 $230Bench 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 $94Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $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