Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	91.1% 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	61.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '17 at 16:07
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	78.5% Very good	Memory 95.1 1-Core 100 2-Core 198 77% 131 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 489 52% 412 Pts	64-Core 503 31% 503 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 122 Parallax 111 96% 117 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 106 Splatting 97 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB mSATA-$169 390 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 79872 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5391 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2308 (AA) Unknown 100 100 39 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 132 (AE) Unknown 100 100 132 (B5) Unknown 100 100 7112490747132 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 102 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3950 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 39 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	61.9% Good	Read 491 Write 194 Mixed 279 70% 321 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 6.93 98% 41.4 MB/s	DQ Read 28.5 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 4.7 23% 48.6 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 66%
Seagate ST33000651AS 3TB-$78 5,029 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 620GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 87481676 (03) Spinup time 89 86 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3894 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 4318297049 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2284 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1520 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 46 3122488935128 (BD) vendor-specific 88 88 12 (BE) vendor-specific 56 46 841678892 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4418 (C2) HDA temperature 44 54 68719476780 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 20 6 -26117608645300 (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 97959614090296 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2384490185 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2178097819	66.5% Good	Read 117 Write 115 Mixed 93 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.45 105% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 86%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$70 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 589GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 176 4041 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2840 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5597 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2498 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 246 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2593 (C2) HDA temperature 105 96 42 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	58.1% Above average	Read 98.8 Write 104 Mixed 98.4 76% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.33 86% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-437.A01LF KHX1600C10D3/4G 9905403-437.A01LF KHX1600C10D3/4G 16GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	56.7% Above average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 17.7 54% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 18.5 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 56.9 70% 56.9 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 57%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

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	42x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	39x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	29x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	22x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 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: 61% - Good

Total price: $734

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $79
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $363