Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	96.4% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	May 20 '18 at 14:22
Run Duration	102 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 87.3 1-Core 122 2-Core 231 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 676 67% 549 Pts	64-Core 672 42% 672 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.59 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	96.4% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 203 Parallax 196 146% 193 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 785GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 74168552 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 113 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 26565181 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 136 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 68 521404447 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 124 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 42949672991 (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 95958159327963 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4898054706 (F2) Unknown 100 253 72402772053	79.9% Very good	Read 128 Write 150 Mixed 125 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 5.15 4K Mixed 0.37 155% 1.99 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 112%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 15,101 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 750GB free, PID a200 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	43.1% Average	Read 105 Write 103 Mixed 77 120% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.19 68% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Group Inc. TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GB 22,274 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 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	69.4% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 21.9 69% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 22.8 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 70.2 57% 70.2 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 103%

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Gaming 87%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 73%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME - $185

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	370x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 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 $499Bench 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 $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	25x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 24GBCorsairBench 65%, 14 samples	14x

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Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $1,445

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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