Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 94.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.9% 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	62.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	7.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160107
Uptime	8.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 13 '17 at 00:06
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

Watch Gameplay: 1070 + 9600K How to compare your gameplay

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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)	94.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 146 2-Core 276 97% 173 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 774 78% 636 Pts	64-Core 776 48% 776 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.9% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 113 Parallax 106 82% 107 fps	MRender 90.6 Gravity 96 Splatting 98.7 78% 95.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 282GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3779 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 389 (B1) Unknown 99 93 3 (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 73 57 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2615785650	82% Excellent	Read 489 Write 271 Mixed 274 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 66.9 4K Mixed 29.3 136% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 42 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 59.6 62% 96.8 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 123%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 92134317 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -2551210567932 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 736 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 66 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 35 64426803226 (C2) HDA temperature 26 35 64426803226 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 92134317 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 92134317 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 92134317 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9784 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6185 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6185 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5601 (F4) Unknown 98 98 5308497	62.7% Good	Read 444 Write 113 Mixed 141 50% 233 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 16.2 118% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 69.1 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 9.86 31% 65.3 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 73%
PNY CS1311 480GB-$31 13,149 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 28GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5854 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 738 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 818 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196621 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 58 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2534	77.7% Very good	Read 518 Write 352 Mixed 352 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 77.9 4K Mixed 10.5 105% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 34.4 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 11 45% 93.7 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 29120960 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3000 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10928602 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5777 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 733 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295098370 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 64 504692763 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33691 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 55834574875 (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 51483772979256 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7454807952 (F2) Unknown 100 253 111440534968	103% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 160 Mixed 161 130% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.24 71% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$65 6,723 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3112 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	97.4% Outstanding	MC Read 35.3 MC Write 37 MC Mixed 30.9 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.8 SC Write 36.6 SC Mixed 30.2 84% 29.5 GB/s	Latency 51.8 77% 51.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 105%

Take a copy of your results

System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Custom PC Builder (Explore upgrades for this PC) Build your perfect PC: compare component prices, popularity, speed and value for money

CHOOSE AN UPGRADE:

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

MBD

Typical MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA Builds (Compare 624 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 87%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	458x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 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 $109Bench 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

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 40% - Average

Total price: $1,205

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16