Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	98.6% 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	194% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	6 Days
Run Date	Apr 30 '18 at 12:44
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 142 2-Core 274 93% 169 Pts	4-Core 477 8-Core 794 78% 636 Pts	64-Core 773 48% 773 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$245 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	98.6% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 140 Parallax 118 106% 129 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 112 Splatting 96.5 84% 104 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB 6,967 User benchmarks, average bench 225% 686GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXY7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	194% Outstanding	Read 2,113 Write 1,147 Mixed 1,540 354% 1,600 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 32.2 4K Mixed 30.3 113% 33.3 MB/s	DQ Read 121 DQ Write 99 DQ Mixed 49.5 54% 90 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 194% Great: 294%
Seagate ST31000528AS 1.5TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 778GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 99 (03) Spinup time 72 72 9340 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1244 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2603 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1093 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 88 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 88 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 70 454754331 (C2) HDA temperature 71 65 488308765 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 362614 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	35.2% Below average	Read 53.6 Write 69.2 Mixed 71.8 49% 64.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.22 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.28 61% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 35.2% Great: 46%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 743GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 240709596 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6734 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 87639365 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4304 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2661 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098509 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 62 538902560 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 81604378656 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 22 240709596 (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 -24837795860388 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3689603953 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2955345018	62.8% Good	Read 114 Write 105 Mixed 102 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.54 118% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 68%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 187GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 78 1430 (03) Spinup time 70 70 9920 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8121 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5017 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3225 (0D) Soft read error rate 99 78 1430 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 4422 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 63 488439837 (C2) HDA temperature 69 57 521994271 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 165141 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 98 98 67 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	33.3% Below average	Read 56.6 Write 59.1 Mixed 60.8 44% 58.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.22 63% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 33.3% Great: 58%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 123GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 70 70 9830 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 6603 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8110 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3588 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 69 488439837 (C2) HDA temperature 70 67 505217054 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 172301 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	37.6% Below average	Read 74.7 Write 56.1 Mixed 89.3 56% 73.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.26 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.28 66% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU64GX4M4C3200C16 2x16GB 186 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.7% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 23.7 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 23.5 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 111%

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Gaming 106%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA - $378

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,158x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	177x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	340x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	233x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	91x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	62x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	57x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	81x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	56x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	52x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $1,187

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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16