Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 130% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 103% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 94.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	136% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	89.4% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colores, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '17 at 14:49
Run Duration	245 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 136 2-Core 273 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 537 8-Core 543 72% 540 Pts	64-Core 544 34% 544 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 210 Parallax 203 157% 202 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 186 Splatting 127 120% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.78% Terrible	Lighting 8.1 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 8.22 7% 9.52 fps	MRender 11.3 Gravity 7.17 Splatting 16.7 10% 11.7 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.78% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 265GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4239 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1536 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 48 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 26 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6282548873	114% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 416 Mixed 419 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 48.6 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 51.9 196% 68.4 MB/s	DQ Read 50.7 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 133 113% 158 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 133GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4130 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1643 (B1) Unknown 96 96 40 (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 44 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 67 (EB) Unknown 99 99 101 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26115617360	89.4% Excellent	Read 510 Write 353 Mixed 351 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 80.5 4K Mixed 23.2 142% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 47.1 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 79 79% 120 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 119GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7906 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3241 (B1) Unknown 97 97 92 (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 69 46 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 736 (EB) Unknown 99 99 448 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22906627957	96.9% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 460 Mixed 497 110% 494 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 26.2 151% 59.8 MB/s	DQ Read 37.2 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 26.2 36% 62.3 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 116%
Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630 4TB 469 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 825GB free Firmware: MPAOA580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 98 (03) Spinup time 122 122 47282127423 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 11037 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 111 111 43 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 8339 (C0) Power-off retract count 87 87 16255 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 16255 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 231929479199 (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 200 200 0	43.2% Average	Read 76.6 Write 73.5 Mixed 69 55% 73 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.18 77% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 801GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 71029016 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6096 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 36 35 20787658668746 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14792 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 6135 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 80 47248900193 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 49 538247195 (C2) HDA temperature 27 51 81604378651 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 29 17 71029016 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 514 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -45655502330885 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2981142144 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2494558523	66.4% Good	Read 129 Write 102 Mixed 101 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.29 93% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 68%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 144GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 184 7625 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4521 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3851 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1373 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19705 (C2) HDA temperature 121 97 31 (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	56.9% Above average	Read 114 Write 84.2 Mixed 80.4 70% 92.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.2 82% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 89,024 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	113% Outstanding	MC Read 40.2 MC Write 42.6 MC Mixed 38.6 116% 40.5 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 45.3 SC Mixed 34.2 98% 34.2 GB/s	Latency 51.3 78% 51.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 119%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	458x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	68x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	139x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 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 $109Bench 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 $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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