Asus MAXIMUS VIII IMPACT

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 93.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	66% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	101% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII IMPACT (all builds)
Memory	24.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '18 at 06:05
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (78^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 127 2-Core 255 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 482 8-Core 690 73% 586 Pts	64-Core 697 43% 697 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	66% Good	Lighting 84.4 Reflection 85.8 Parallax 76.3 69% 82.2 fps	MRender 79.5 Gravity 76.5 Splatting 68 60% 74.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 750GB-$310 3,724 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 469GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7267 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2135 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 64 42 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 83 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17295612234	101% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 350 Mixed 353 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 47.2 4K Write 82.6 4K Mixed 31.1 155% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 99.4 130% 237 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 125%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 64 134625371 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 577 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1289725 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -103856604184316 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 270 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 131074 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 55 454230043 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 626 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 77309411355 (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 97332548862526 (F1) Unknown 100 253 962616891 (F2) Unknown 100 253 392824270 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	52.8% Above average	Read 102 Write 82.1 Mixed 59 60% 81 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.65 128% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 4,021 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	110% Outstanding	MC Read 40.7 MC Write 41.9 MC Mixed 34.6 112% 39.1 GB/s	SC Read 22.9 SC Write 45.5 SC Mixed 33.6 97% 34 GB/s	Latency 48 83% 48 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 136%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII IMPACT

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	147x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	50x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	34x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	34x
RTX 3060Nvidia $274Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	20x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
Intenso 1TBBench 128%, 430 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	18x
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX $75Bench 82%, 134,977 samples	8x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $732

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 $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