Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.3% 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 GENE-Z (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	3.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '17 at 18:06
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770-$297 278,207 User benchmarks, average bench 69% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 98.3 1-Core 116 2-Core 221 84% 145 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 572 61% 485 Pts	64-Core 573 35% 573 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$265 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6180) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2777 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 156 Parallax 137 118% 146 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 137 Splatting 113 101% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 171GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 443 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 130 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 323 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65541 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 85 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 339	71.9% Very good	Read 492 Write 334 Mixed 343 86% 390 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 35.5 4K Mixed 13.5 72% 24.2 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 10.2 71% 165 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 97%
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 171GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 428 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 113 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 489 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 75 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 274	61.4% Good	Read 492 Write 336 Mixed 341 86% 390 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 36.1 4K Mixed 10.2 68% 23.4 MB/s	DQ Read 26.1 DQ Write 37.1 DQ Mixed 48.4 32% 37.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 97%
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 157GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 427 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 123 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 257 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65538 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 85 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 518	72.3% Very good	Read 510 Write 347 Mixed 345 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 38.9 4K Mixed 8.83 70% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 8.67 70% 164 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 97%
Seagate ST4000LM016-1N2170 4TB 2,075 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0003 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 100 12247140 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 153 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 155343 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 44525925958056 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 73 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 61 470941718 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 535 (C2) HDA temperature 22 40 64424509462 (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 139951509340209 (F1) Unknown 100 253 62731359 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22208284	70.6% Very good	Read 126 Write 118 Mixed 86.6 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 1.79 4K Write 6.32 4K Mixed 0.61 259% 2.9 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 99[1/6/3]996(F) 2x4GB 43 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	MC Read 29 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 25.6 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 22.7 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 44.6 90% 44.6 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 79%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z - $150

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	180x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	102x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	32x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	34x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	26x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	26x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
BX500 240GBCrucial $28Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	17x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	19x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	10x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	9x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $666

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $40	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