Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 88.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	274% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	26.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 09 '17 at 00:56
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	88.3% Excellent	Memory 94.7 1-Core 135 2-Core 252 91% 160 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 740 72% 590 Pts	64-Core 797 49% 797 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$245 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 146 Parallax 124 110% 135 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 130 Splatting 107 95% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 764GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q 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 99 99 5 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14332 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2792 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (B3) Unknown 99 99 5 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 5 (BB) vendor-specific 53 53 468765 (BE) vendor-specific 76 51 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 468765 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 42 (EB) Unknown 99 99 868 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13981376063
Poor: 72% Great: 126%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 764GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q 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 67 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 21 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 59 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1233812081
Poor: 72% Great: 126%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 375GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	274% Outstanding	Read 2,809 Write 1,397 Mixed 1,420 412% 1,875 MB/s	4K Read 59.1 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 37.6 204% 73.8 MB/s	DQ Read 526 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 137 163% 291 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 274% Great: 254%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 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 0 (03) Spinup time 174 171 8300 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 820 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3487 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 806 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 63 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3518 (C2) HDA temperature 120 111 32 (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	75.6% Very good	Read 130 Write 134 Mixed 120 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.2 95% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB-$560 34,441 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	MC Read 34.5 MC Write 36.1 MC Mixed 27.9 94% 32.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 34.5 SC Mixed 24 73% 25.6 GB/s	Latency 58 69% 58 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 105%

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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 $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 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 $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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Value: 46% - Average

Total price: $1,050

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16