Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	22.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151001
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 26 '15 at 14:58
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (44^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Memory 88.9 1-Core 124 2-Core 237 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 660 66% 540 Pts	64-Core 694 43% 694 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5906 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	63% Good	Lighting 80.4 Reflection 81.8 Parallax 72.2 66% 78.1 fps	MRender 78.1 Gravity 71.6 Splatting 65.6 58% 71.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$113 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 67 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 53 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 67 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 791836974	74% Very good	Read 379 Write 393 Mixed 344 83% 372 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 56.2 4K Mixed 20.3 97% 34.6 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 75.3 72% 114 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 124%
LSI MR9260-8i 298GB 12GB free Firmware: 2.12 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples

LSI MR9260-8i 2TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 77GB free Firmware: 2.12 Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 2% Great: 78%
JMicron Generic 400GB 331GB free, PID null Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	328% Outstanding	Read 328 Write 285 Mixed 242 355% 285 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 69.5 4K Mixed 8.74 2,740% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 21.6 DQ Write 77.4 DQ Mixed 8.72 3,008% 35.9 MB/s

JMicron Generic 400GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 284GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	329% Outstanding	Read 329 Write 288 Mixed 285 380% 301 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 69.4 4K Mixed 8.67 2,731% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 21.3 DQ Write 78.8 DQ Mixed 8.62 3,054% 36.3 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 329% Great: 329%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x8GB 289 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.1% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 23.5 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 25.5 SC Mixed 20.6 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 125%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 87%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME - $185

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	376x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	80x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	101x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	46x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	44x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	25x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $50Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 24GBCorsairBench 65%, 14 samples	14x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $930

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