Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 94.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.2% 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	56.3% 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 VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jun 16 '17 at 10:24
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Memory 92.5 1-Core 134 2-Core 269 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 522 8-Core 740 79% 631 Pts	64-Core 733 45% 733 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 372.70 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 122 Parallax 102 93% 113 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 106 Splatting 105 85% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
M4-CT256M4SSD2 1TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 345GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1760 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 473 (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 66 50 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 22 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11484868849	56.3% Above average	Read 521 Write 285 Mixed 362 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 1.1 68% 15.2 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 952GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 221968600 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1663 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 26284824 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6638 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1661 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65541 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 60 521601054 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 171 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 53437 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 68719476766 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2588 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -23819888621044 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15554815002 (F2) Unknown 100 253 20329225752	77.1% Very good	Read 167 Write 102 Mixed 119 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.25 78% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 114%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 737GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 172 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 750 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1977 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 644 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 72 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1330 (C2) HDA temperature 110 107 33 (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	78.8% Very good	Read 169 Write 106 Mixed 118 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 1.24 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.14 84% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 109%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 836GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9350 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4110 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 6 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 26286 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 9 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3474 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 829 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 70 386924567 (C2) HDA temperature 75 69 420479001 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 127880 (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 99 99 725 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 11 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	45% Average	Read 76.7 Write 80.1 Mixed 83.6 60% 80.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.32 80% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 45% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.9% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 23.5 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 30.1 SC Mixed 25.1 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 63.1 63% 63.1 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 110%

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Gaming 87%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

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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	68x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	139x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	62x
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 $94Bench 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 $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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Total price: $1,050

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16