Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	85% 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	156% 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	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 RANGER (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160107
Uptime	5.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 08 '17 at 21:51
Run Duration	219 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 145 2-Core 284 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 521 8-Core 800 82% 660 Pts	64-Core 797 49% 797 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 115 Parallax 102 90% 109 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 100 Splatting 83 75% 93.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 87%
Nvidia GTX 660-Ti-$362 42,960 User benchmarks, average bench 26% MSI(1462 2843) 2GB CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	29.4% Poor	Lighting 35.9 Reflection 34.2 Parallax 43.2 29% 37.8 fps	MRender 40.9 Gravity 42 Splatting 29 30% 37.3 fps
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	156% Outstanding	Read 1,257 Write 374 Mixed 665 167% 765 MB/s	4K Read 50.4 4K Write 158 4K Mixed 44.1 217% 84.3 MB/s	DQ Read 615 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 163 184% 325 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 156% Great: 243%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 19GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13676 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1665 (B1) Unknown 96 96 136 (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 60 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 97 97 2220 (EB) Unknown 99 99 190 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22539884384	108% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 440 Mixed 505 109% 488 MB/s	4K Read 37.1 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 27.6 155% 61.7 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 77.8 130% 254 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 116%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 3GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11104 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1318 (B1) Unknown 98 98 59 (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 68 59 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 152 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14678110597	67.5% Good	Read 522 Write 129 Mixed 159 58% 270 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 91.3 4K Mixed 11 107% 43.9 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 57.7 78% 149 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 116%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 154GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 70 9229 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2774 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 23978 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2768 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979609633 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2792	60% Good	Read 90.2 Write 119 Mixed 95.4 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.54 126% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 64GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 70 9135 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3466 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 22739 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2727 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979478558 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 24 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3483	63.7% Good	Read 104 Write 118 Mixed 109 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.37 104% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB-$169 37,519 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2747 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	94% Outstanding	MC Read 34.4 MC Write 35.5 MC Mixed 28.9 94% 32.9 GB/s	SC Read 21.7 SC Write 37.6 SC Mixed 29.7 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 97%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,761x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	538x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	453x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	348x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	242x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	171x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	171x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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