Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	66.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150323
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 05 '17 at 22:39
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320-$129 106,454 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.9 GHz, turbo 4.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 87.1 2-Core 168 70% 116 Pts	4-Core 313 8-Core 502 50% 408 Pts	64-Core 526 32% 526 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1170 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.2 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Lighting 82.2 Reflection 64.7 Parallax 125 67% 90.7 fps	MRender 64.7 Gravity 85.5 Splatting 83.3 64% 77.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 209 100 209 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1081 (A6) Unknown 100 100 163 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 214 (A9) Unknown 100 100 32 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 202 (AE) Unknown 100 100 199 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 100 193273528364 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 7 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 17081 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8050 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4801	60.7% Good	Read 497 Write 201 Mixed 284 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 68.6 4K Mixed 4.13 78% 32.2 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 26.7 57% 118 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 78%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$109 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 189 175 5508 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1800 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5306 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1724 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 398 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2645 (C2) HDA temperature 115 112 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	78.9% Very good	Read 133 Write 142 Mixed 131 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.19 96% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 CML8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	52.3% Above average	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 16.5 MC Mixed 18.3 53% 18.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 9.2 SC Mixed 13.7 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 61.9 65% 61.9 ns

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z - $220

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	441x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	214x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	48x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	29x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	29x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBCorsairBench 66%, 6,389 samples	22x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	20x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $630

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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