Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.3% 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	259% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE (all builds)
Memory	8.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160107
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Feb 03 '18 at 14:00
Run Duration	492 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing as expected (49^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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 126 2-Core 236 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 626 63% 513 Pts	64-Core 651 40% 651 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3230) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1774 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 116 Parallax 105 88% 109 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 100 Splatting 90.1 78% 95.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 9,880 User benchmarks, average bench 307% 588GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	30.1% Below average	Read 168 Write 312 Mixed 183 50% 221 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 19.3 4K Mixed 1.02 14% 7.21 MB/s	DQ Read 1.22 DQ Write 21.9 DQ Mixed 2.44 5% 8.53 MB/s
Poor: 113% ↑ This bench: 30.1% Great: 541%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 102GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8367 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1321 (B1) Unknown 91 91 305 (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 35 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 53 (F1) Unknown 99 99 49223818971	99.7% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 363 Mixed 383 94% 421 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 25.2 146% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 291 DQ Mixed 24.7 98% 220 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 116%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	259% Outstanding	Read 2,438 Write 1,523 Mixed 1,703 418% 1,888 MB/s	4K Read 48.2 4K Write 176 4K Mixed 38 215% 87.4 MB/s	DQ Read 49 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 39.3 56% 99.2 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 259% Great: 353%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB 60,539 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 11GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	2.28% Terrible	Read 10.2 Write 3.61 Mixed 5.04 7% 6.29 MB/s	4K Read 0.002 4K Write 0.004 4K Mixed 0.005 0% 0.004 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 2.28% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$201 13,611 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	MC Read 33.2 MC Write 36.1 MC Mixed 30.2 95% 33.2 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 38.8 SC Mixed 26 81% 28.4 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 103%

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

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 73%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	539x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	173x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	116x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	121x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	100x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	29x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	37x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	27x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $724

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16