Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	99.8% 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	231% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Very high background CPU (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

17 months ago, 17 months ago, 17 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	28.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180314
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 23 '22 at 16:55
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	54%

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PC Performing below expectations (34^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	Memory 94.7 1-Core 110 2-Core 175 76% 127 Pts	4-Core 283 8-Core 518 48% 400 Pts	64-Core 531 33% 531 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 517.48 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.8% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 136 Parallax 124 101% 128 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 131 Splatting 115 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 136GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1259 1371 1398 1413 1418 1043 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	231% Outstanding	Read 1,755 Write 1,406 Mixed 726 SusWrite 1,317 291% 1,301 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 90.6 4K Mixed 48.8 168% 59 MB/s	DQ Read 871 DQ Write 392 DQ Mixed 440 377% 568 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 231% Great: 283%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 58GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 379 288 289 290 290 288 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Read 472 Write 464 Mixed 398 SusWrite 304 92% 410 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 81.5 4K Mixed 48.9 163% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 357 270% 361 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 124%
Seagate ST4000DM006-2G5107 4TB 7,216 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 2.5TB free Firmware: DN04 SusWrite @10s intervals: 185 193 196 194 195 193 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 166 Mixed 88 SusWrite 193 114% 155 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 4.6 4K Mixed 1 246% 2.27 MB/s
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 126%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x8GB 785 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	94.2% Outstanding	MC Read 34.5 MC Write 37.4 MC Mixed 30.2 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 34.8 SC Mixed 25.2 74% 26 GB/s	Latency 58 69% 58 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 130%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	458x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	68x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	139x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	62x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	48x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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Value: 40% - Average

Total price: $1,205

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