Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 26% Raft	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 23% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	18.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	103% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	3.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	23.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 00:28
Run Duration	254 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 128 2-Core 255 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 704 72% 581 Pts	64-Core 703 44% 703 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 750-Ti-$92 309,423 User benchmarks, average bench 17% Zotac(19DA 288A) 2GB CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	18.2% Very poor	Lighting 22.7 Reflection 16.8 Parallax 21.1 18% 20.2 fps	MRender 25.2 Gravity 23.6 Splatting 17.3 18% 22 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17397 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 29 (B1) Unknown 94 94 126 (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 63 56 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 41230278589	103% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 402 Mixed 268 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 41.4 4K Write 75.8 4K Mixed 38.4 152% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 313 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 106 123% 214 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 124%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 16GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 47323 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 352 (B1) Unknown 72 72 1020 (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 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 109 (F1) Unknown 99 99 56931199712	61.9% Good	Read 500 Write 170 Mixed 217 64% 296 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 49.6 4K Mixed 18.3 83% 30 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 53.1 DQ Mixed 36.6 56% 112 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 76%
WD Red 6TB (2014)-$129 11,340 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 4.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 211 207 8425 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 33 (C2) HDA temperature 120 106 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	91.3% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 158 Mixed 133 113% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.78 4K Mixed 0.27 120% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 99%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 181 5908 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 24 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11796 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 18 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15446 (C2) HDA temperature 121 117 29 (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	71.2% Very good	Read 131 Write 118 Mixed 78.1 81% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.2 78% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 96%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$81 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 217GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 177 6125 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 11 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10580 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 786 (C2) HDA temperature 120 116 30 (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	62.1% Good	Read 129 Write 87.2 Mixed 59.3 68% 91.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.24 83% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 88%
WD Red 6TB (2014)-$129 11,340 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 209GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 202 197 8883 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 9 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3847 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 28 (C2) HDA temperature 120 98 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	59.4% Above average	Read 108 Write 98.6 Mixed 91 74% 99.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.26 89% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 99%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 52GB free, PID 10a8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	24.9% Poor	Read 89.8 Write 37.2 Mixed 39.7 61% 55.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.23 50% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 24.9% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$48 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	MC Read 37.2 MC Write 38.5 MC Mixed 30.7 101% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 21.7 SC Write 38.1 SC Mixed 27.6 83% 29.1 GB/s	Latency 52.5 76% 52.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 104%

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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	69x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	139x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	63x
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 $90Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	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 $175	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) $23	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