Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

Motherboard	Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '17 at 18:42
Run Duration	93 Seconds
Run User	BGR-User
Background CPU	36%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 120 2-Core 242 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 619 68% 538 Pts	64-Core 619 38% 619 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$130 360,351 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Sapphire(1DA2 E366) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.659.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.7% Good	Lighting 76.8 Reflection 72.3 Parallax 94.8 63% 81.3 fps	MRender 76.8 Gravity 72 Splatting 63.3 57% 70.7 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 56%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 250GB-$44 9,759 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: GM2OA5CA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 36 (03) Spinup time 105 105 12897681602 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 7795 (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 242 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 134 134 28 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 31166 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 7368 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 7820 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 7820 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 223338889247 (C4) Reallocation count 95 95 264 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	31.6% Below average	Read 56.5 Write 53.9 Mixed 50.3 40% 53.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.74 4K Mixed 0.37 58% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 31.6% Great: 50%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL9-9-9 D3-1600 2x8GB 743 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	66.8% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 24.1 MC Mixed 20.5 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 21.8 SC Mixed 20.4 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 51.2 78% 51.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 62%

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

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z - $150

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	180x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	102x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	32x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	34x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	26x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	26x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
BX500 240GBCrucial $28Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	17x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	19x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	10x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	9x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $666

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16