Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 85%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	11% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	106% 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	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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (all builds)
Memory	2.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151110
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '18 at 19:26
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 87.5 1-Core 132 2-Core 241 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 659 69% 552 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 370-$153 39,178 User benchmarks, average bench 21% Asus(1043 2015) CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.12.2 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	11% Very poor	Lighting 9.73 Reflection 30.3 Parallax 32.7 8% 24.2 fps	MRender 27.2 Gravity 23.4 Splatting 14.5 17% 21.7 fps
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 11% Great: 23%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ AMD Radeon R7 240GB-$110 2,356 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5517 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1360 (AB) Unknown 100 100 81476432 (AE) Unknown 100 100 13 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 187 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 94 94 94 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9095 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12698 (F9) Unknown 100 100 623569648	106% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 493 Mixed 502 112% 501 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 29 134% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 85.7 136% 260 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 108%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 160 6875 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4353 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21287 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4310 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 135 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 132 132 205421 (C2) HDA temperature 126 116 24 (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	65.3% Good	Read 112 Write 116 Mixed 99.9 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.2 71% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 67%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 346GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 133 123 4308 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1362 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6246 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1362 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 186 186 42756 (C2) HDA temperature 119 111 24 (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	75% Very good	Read 120 Write 141 Mixed 126 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.25 89% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x4GB-$47 29,751 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	78% Very good	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 30.9 MC Mixed 24.2 81% 28.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 20.8 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 70 57% 70 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 98%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER - $286

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,761x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	538x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	274x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	453x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	348x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	242x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	171x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	171x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	117x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	99x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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