Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.7% 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	131% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	May 03 '17 at 23:26
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	20%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$232 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 145 2-Core 283 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 790 79% 644 Pts	64-Core 790 49% 790 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 112 Parallax 95.6 86% 104 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 96 Splatting 97.7 80% 97 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 250GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 117% 123GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7142 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1749 (B1) Unknown 97 97 56 (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 56 43 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 211 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24841686880	131% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 499 Mixed 506 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 46.1 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 58.8 207% 73.7 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 317 DQ Mixed 128 156% 274 MB/s
Poor: 89% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 131%
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 83 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 21GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 16 (03) Spinup time 175 174 2225 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1895 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1439 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 355 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 158 158 127413 (C2) HDA temperature 105 92 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 95 95 4132 (F1) Unknown 200 200 8888561080 (F2) Unknown 200 200 11829524777	9.78% Terrible	Read 109 Write 79.6 Mixed 86.3 20% 91.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.18 2% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 9.78% Great: 122%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 174 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 233 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2207 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 233 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 197 (C2) HDA temperature 102 88 41 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	79.3% Very good	Read 138 Write 138 Mixed 133 103% 136 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 2.89 4K Mixed 0.27 137% 1.48 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 109%
SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 16GB-$17 2,906 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 3GB free, PID 5580 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	73.5% Very good	Read 231 Write 30.6 Mixed 53.7 96% 105 MB/s	4K Read 13.8 4K Write 9.8 4K Mixed 4.3 531% 9.3 MB/s	DQ Read 14.6 DQ Write 9.57 DQ Mixed 4.93 547% 9.69 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 81%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2400 C10 2x8GB 1,021 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	MC Read 29.7 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 25.5 82% 28.8 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 30.8 SC Mixed 26.8 71% 24.9 GB/s	Latency 51.6 78% 51.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 107%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	465x
Core i7-7700KIntel $232Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	69x
Core i5-6600KIntel $49Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	144x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	64x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	48x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $84Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	16x
Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 12,409 samples	12x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $745

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