Asus MAXIMUS IX APEX

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.2% 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	88.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX APEX (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180314
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 28 '20 at 15:59
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$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 (100^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 134 2-Core 231 87% 152 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 723 73% 592 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Sapphire(174B 1071) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.2% Very good	Lighting 97.3 Reflection 102 Parallax 86.7 79% 95.2 fps	MRender 93.1 Gravity 90.9 Splatting 94.5 76% 92.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM841 2.5" 7mm 128GB 4,859 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM01D0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 201 172 193 250 317 329 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Read 457 Write 303 Mixed 227 SusWrite 244 69% 308 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 81.5 4K Mixed 36.2 140% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 119 133% 230 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 99%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 743GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 162 165 165 166 166 167 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 152 Mixed 105 SusWrite 165 111% 151 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 1.1 215% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Apacer 76.C102G.D170B 2x8GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2460 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 22.3 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 33.2 SC Mixed 24.6 73% 25.5 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 80%

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

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Desktop 94%

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Workstation 77%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX APEX

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $229Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	279x
Core i7-6700KIntel $163Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	44x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	43x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	57x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $350Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	56x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	40x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	17x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	16x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $112Bench 385%, 327,441 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	26x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $32Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	23x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $50Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	13x

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Total price: $565

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