Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	105% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	27.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151119
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 08 '16 at 22:31
Run Duration	240 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (57^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 144 2-Core 262 95% 167 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 692 71% 575 Pts	64-Core 656 41% 656 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.1% 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 3232) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5891 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 70% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 901GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 27 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 66 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 159047906	105% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 501 Mixed 502 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 35.2 168% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38.8 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 27.8 37% 64.8 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 124%
Corsair Force LX 512GB 435 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 220GB free Firmware: N0402C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2238 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 202 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 341 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 43 (A3) Unknown 100 100 3 (A4) Unknown 100 100 10805 (A5) Unknown 100 100 19 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 91734 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 91734 (F2) Unknown 100 100 142272	106% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 426 Mixed 465 105% 471 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 38.4 157% 62.2 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 77.8 109% 198 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 106%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 202GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5160 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1886 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 46 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 295 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3313764094	113% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 411 Mixed 422 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 47.8 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 47.8 190% 67.4 MB/s	DQ Read 132 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 104 109% 174 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 109GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2784 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 626 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 58 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 95 95 4937 (EB) Unknown 99 99 173 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3412661972	106% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 414 Mixed 425 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 28.8 156% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 135 152% 260 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 58GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4210 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1621 (B1) Unknown 99 99 60 (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 72 61 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 547 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15828960098	85.8% Excellent	Read 378 Write 395 Mixed 389 87% 388 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 84.6 4K Mixed 34.3 140% 50.8 MB/s	DQ Read 33.9 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 154 99% 111 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 51GB free Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4461854 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 127088082289939 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 375 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 155 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 34 77311639580 (C2) HDA temperature 28 34 77311639580 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4461854 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4461854 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4461854 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98784247808 (E9) Unknown 0 0 526 (EA) Unknown 0 0 563 (F1) Unknown 0 0 563 (F2) Unknown 0 0 242 (F4) Unknown 100 100 720898	63.3% Good	Read 367 Write 305 Mixed 325 74% 332 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 22.6 4K Mixed 18.3 79% 23.3 MB/s	DQ Read 188 DQ Write 88.6 DQ Mixed 51.7 61% 109 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 65%
WD VelociRaptor 300GB-$90 11,249 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 17GB free Firmware: 04.04V02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 201 198 2933 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12452 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24646 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7227 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 2020 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12452 (C2) HDA temperature 112 96 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	44.4% Average	Read 75.8 Write 78.2 Mixed 78.5 58% 77.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.69 165% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 613 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3395 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 37.6 MC Write 41.4 MC Mixed 32.4 106% 37.1 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 42 SC Mixed 31 91% 31.9 GB/s	Latency 49.4 81% 49.4 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 125%

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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 $400Bench 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 $90Bench 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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Total price: $1,205

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 $178	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