Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 94.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	85.2% 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	205% 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	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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160302
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 09 '16 at 01:50
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Memory 93.7 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 741 78% 626 Pts	64-Core 746 46% 746 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 116 Parallax 98.8 87% 107 fps	MRender 99 Gravity 98.1 Splatting 101 82% 99.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 308GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 955 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 111 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 71 62 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 415673396	89.9% Excellent	Read 486 Write 269 Mixed 274 76% 343 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 33 141% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 75.1 105% 198 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 123%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 225GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7376 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 163 (B1) Unknown 99 99 21 (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 73 100 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16150477852	123% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 499 Mixed 515 114% 513 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 51.3 182% 66.8 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 341 DQ Mixed 176 178% 288 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 124%
Samsung Portable SSD T3 250GB 1,227 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 90GB free Firmware: 0 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	80.4% Excellent	Read 433 Write 431 Mixed 435 97% 433 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 39.1 4K Mixed 29.4 96% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 76.6 78% 125 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 75%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 59GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	205% Outstanding	Read 1,571 Write 736 Mixed 960 240% 1,089 MB/s	4K Read 54.4 4K Write 195 4K Mixed 53.3 254% 101 MB/s	DQ Read 697 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 189 216% 382 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 205% Great: 243%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 2,692 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.2% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 20.4 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 22.1 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 60.5 66% 60.5 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 119%

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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 $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	371x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	78x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	100x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	46x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	42x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	25x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 24GBCorsairBench 65%, 14 samples	14x

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Total price: $1,445

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	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