Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	97.9% 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	116% 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	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.

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Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	25.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	13.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 09 '19 at 07:51
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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-$163 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 84.6 1-Core 133 2-Core 255 87% 158 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 704 71% 578 Pts	64-Core 688 43% 688 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.9% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 137 Parallax 118 101% 127 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 124 Splatting 103 91% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$85 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 272GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 444 339 300 297 304 298 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Read 458 Write 435 Mixed 387 SusWrite 330 90% 402 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 55.1 197% 71 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 359 270% 361 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$110 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 269GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 448 467 458 458 465 452 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 440 Write 426 Mixed 419 SusWrite 458 98% 436 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 45.2 164% 60.1 MB/s	DQ Read 383 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 349 266% 359 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3600 C17 4x8GB 768 User benchmarks, average bench 107% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.2% Very good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 22.3 70% 24.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 27.6 SC Mixed 23.2 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 72.5 55% 72.5 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 135%

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

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $163Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	465x
Core i7-7700KIntel $228Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	69x
Core i5-6600KIntel $120Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	144x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $350Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	64x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	48x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $84Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	16x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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