Asus Maximus III GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Destroyer	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	77.6% 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	52.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 III GENE (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121019
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 15 '18 at 18:06
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 870-$100 37,228 User benchmarks, average bench 66% LGA1156, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.15 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 96.7 1-Core 105 2-Core 204 79% 135 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 457 55% 424 Pts	64-Core 507 31% 507 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.6% Very good	Lighting 96.3 Reflection 107 Parallax 90.4 78% 97.8 fps	MRender 92.4 Gravity 91.1 Splatting 94.4 76% 92.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 357GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12917 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1579 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 79 (AE) Unknown 100 100 919 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 47 227634315295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 40097097861 (F7) Unknown 100 100 2285451641 (F8) Unknown 100 100 117615340	52.3% Above average	Read 200 Write 237 Mixed 196 47% 211 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 56.4 4K Mixed 19.2 91% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 27.1 DQ Write 93.6 DQ Mixed 16.6 25% 45.8 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 107%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 6850 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2494 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30101 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2122 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 977 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1516 (C2) HDA temperature 115 89 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	71.2% Very good	Read 129 Write 119 Mixed 75.8 80% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.37 110% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	48.1% Average	MC Read 19.1 MC Write 16.2 MC Mixed 12.3 45% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 14.4 SC Mixed 15.4 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 51.6 78% 51.6 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 54%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 72%

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Workstation 30%

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Motherboard: Asus Maximus III GENE

CPU
Core i7 860Intel $339Bench 64%, 51,451 samples	21x
Core i5 760Intel $100Bench 64%, 34,495 samples	21x
Core i5-750Intel $72Bench 62%, 43,796 samples	15x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	8x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	5x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	5x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
A400 120GBKingston $30Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	5x
SSD-69D03092M-T 80GBBench 32%, 84 samples	5x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	45x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	28x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples	7x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $550

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