Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 92.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	71.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	125% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 27 '16 at 22:17
Run Duration	624 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.2 1-Core 129 2-Core 263 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 514 8-Core 517 69% 516 Pts	64-Core 515 32% 515 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3669) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7563 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	Lighting 93.3 Reflection 89.9 Parallax 79.7 76% 87.6 fps	MRender 81.2 Gravity 80.4 Splatting 70.9 63% 77.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ VERTEX4 500GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5572 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 148 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 60 54 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11492821028	125% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 492 Mixed 498 112% 501 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 57.5 214% 78.4 MB/s	DQ Read 48.9 DQ Write 345 DQ Mixed 139 124% 178 MB/s
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 136%
Seagate NAS HDD 3TB-$119 3,343 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 340GB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 169484400 (03) Spinup time 98 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 302 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6648845 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5389 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 144 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 80 80 20 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 521338909 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 448 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 42949672989 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	65.7% Good	Read 121 Write 108 Mixed 106 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.18 76% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 99%
Seagate NAS HDD 3TB-$119 3,343 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 3GB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 54915592 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 355 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21759091 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14460 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 148 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 504561693 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 833 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 42949672989 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	59.6% Above average	Read 91.5 Write 116 Mixed 109 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.2 78% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 99%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 1GB free Firmware: CR100-12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7360 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3611 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 59486 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1801 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 3357989 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 131072 (BC) Unknown 92 92 853 (BE) vendor-specific 72 49 28 (C2) HDA temperature 151 82 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3357989 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 1367	24.5% Poor	Read 42.5 Write 42.8 Mixed 59 37% 48.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.37 77% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 24.5% Great: 44%
Samsung STORY Station 1TB 625 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 24GB free, PID 5f05 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	19.8% Very poor	Read 39.9 Write 42.9 Mixed 41.2 54% 41.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.32 63% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 19.8% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-444.A00LF 0420 F3-2400C11-4GXM 9905403-444.A00LF 0420 F3-2400C11-4GXM 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	63.8% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 23.2 MC Mixed 20.2 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 20.3 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 56.4 71% 56.4 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 64%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER - $283

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,616x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	442x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	222x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	402x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	227x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	102x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	79x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	108x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	105x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	91x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $940

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 $179	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