Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	70% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 27 '16 at 00:30
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 98.5 1-Core 120 2-Core 231 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 605 63% 509 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560-$180 23,273 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Gigabyte(1458 3527) 1GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5891 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	14.9% Very poor	Lighting 17.6 Reflection 20.7 Parallax 15.6 14% 18 fps	MRender 18.7 Gravity 18.4 Splatting 20.8 16% 19.3 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 14.9% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT09B0Q 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 99 517 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1082 (B1) Unknown 98 98 22 (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 59 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6438512126	70% Very good	Read 502 Write 240 Mixed 262 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 55 4K Mixed 13.5 85% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 31 80% 172 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$89 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 482GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 180428858 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1728 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 56105493 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2671 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1736 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 26 26 74 (BC) Unknown 100 99 173 (BD) vendor-specific 50 50 50 (BE) vendor-specific 69 36 103600357407 (C2) HDA temperature 31 64 47244640287 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 36 180428858 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 113760798771817 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1023227073 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1089469476	36.7% Below average	Read 66.9 Write 61.1 Mixed 79.5 52% 69.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.31 71% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 36.7% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 993996 2x4GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	77.7% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 24.7 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 21.8 SC Mixed 22.7 63% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 43.7 92% 43.7 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 78%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 47%

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Motherboard: Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	226x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	65x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	40x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	29x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	22x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	12x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	25x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	15x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	9x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $590

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16