Asus ROG MAXIMUS X APEX

Performance Results


Gaming 151% UFO	Desktop 108% UFO	Workstation 141% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 107%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	141% 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	63.5% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X APEX (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20171025
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '18 at 11:01
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Memory 97.3 1-Core 156 2-Core 312 103% 189 Pts	4-Core 625 8-Core 995 100% 810 Pts	64-Core 1,306 81% 1,306 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	141% Outstanding	Lighting 203 Reflection 210 Parallax 201 166% 205 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 193 Splatting 130 122% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial_ CT1050MX30 1TB 488 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 218GB free Firmware: M0C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 377 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 291 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 74 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 55 193274314775 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 1 (F6) Unknown 100 100 11675803279 (F7) Unknown 100 100 365186214 (F8) Unknown 100 100 194914852 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4385 (D2) Unknown 100 100 4	78.1% Very good	Read 466 Write 305 Mixed 320 80% 364 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 56.6 4K Mixed 23.9 94% 34.1 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 55 101% 203 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 103%
Samsung SSD 500GB 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11995 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 727 (B1) Unknown 96 96 47 (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 73 32 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 134 (F1) Unknown 99 99 36576680732	63.5% Good	Read 496 Write 139 Mixed 178 59% 271 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 57.9 4K Mixed 14.7 86% 32.2 MB/s	DQ Read 309 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 33.8 77% 163 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 135%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 100GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	246% Outstanding	Read 2,396 Write 937 Mixed 1,322 340% 1,552 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 175 4K Mixed 38.5 208% 85.8 MB/s	DQ Read 870 DQ Write 573 DQ Mixed 274 325% 572 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 246% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC4C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 82 87861928 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3005 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 89995372 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 33098 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1351 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 3762 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 488308763 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 899 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23769 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 60129542171 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 32 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 32 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 30124900642540 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -92269290690827 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -33893732695288	92.4% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 162 Mixed 147 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.34 94% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 551GB free Firmware: CC4C Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	74.7% Very good	Read 135 Write 126 Mixed 82.3 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.3 75% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 114%
WD WD50PURX-64LZMY0 5TB 119 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 320GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 210 192 8500 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1469 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5357 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 241 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1468 (C2) HDA temperature 125 108 27 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	73.4% Very good	Read 138 Write 118 Mixed 106 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.2 75% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 99%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 51,435 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3100 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 39.2 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 31.7 105% 36.6 GB/s	SC Read 23.4 SC Write 43.6 SC Mixed 29.3 92% 32.1 GB/s	Latency 49.2 81% 49.2 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 108%

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Workstation 103%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X APEX

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	176x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	54x
Core i9-9900KIntel $412Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	22x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	71x
RTX 3070Nvidia $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	17x
Titan X PascalNvidia $286Bench 121%, 8,692 samples	16x

SSD
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	17x
860 Pro 1TBSamsung $300Bench 112%, 8,179 samples	15x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	11x

RAM
Flare X DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GBG.SKILL $73Bench 98%, 54,616 samples	27x
CMT32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GBCorsairBench 91%, 17,500 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 91%, 1,151 samples	12x

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Total price: $883

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $125	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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