Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 35% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	51.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	96.8% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120427
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 31 '17 at 09:36
Run Duration	291 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$197 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	75.2% Very good	Memory 91.2 1-Core 99.5 2-Core 195 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 320 8-Core 491 50% 406 Pts	64-Core 512 32% 512 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	51.9% Above average	Lighting 64.1 Reflection 68.8 Parallax 67 52% 66.6 fps	MRender 74.1 Gravity 60.9 Splatting 55.9 51% 63.6 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial_CT275MX3 275GB 323 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1458 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 772 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 94 94 92 (AE) Unknown 100 100 61 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 39 261993922601 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 94 94 6 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 23527938521 (F7) Unknown 100 100 737774174 (F8) Unknown 100 100 290429014 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1253 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	96.8% Outstanding	Read 487 Write 469 Mixed 481 107% 479 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 82.4 4K Mixed 32.9 124% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 219 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 58.3 94% 177 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 97%
WD Black 1.5TB (2010) 6,983 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8950 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13150 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29639 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3380 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 395 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12754 (C2) HDA temperature 111 87 41 (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
Poor: 44% Great: 85%
WD Black 1.5TB (2010) 6,983 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8675 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9176 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 29171 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3287 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 405 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8770 (C2) HDA temperature 113 90 39 (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
Poor: 44% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 959GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 5196472 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4652 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6240538 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8376 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1441 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 52 605749277 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28861 (C2) HDA temperature 29 48 60129542173 (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 -42417097013790 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17204779504 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14048091580	80.9% Excellent	Read 160 Write 122 Mixed 135 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.2 69% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 96%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 384GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 141 3825 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3277 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20759 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1954 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 950 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2326 (C2) HDA temperature 112 93 31 (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	63.8% Good	Read 109 Write 113 Mixed 109 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.37 98% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 69%
Toshiba MK3252GS 320GB 47 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 183GB free Firmware: LV011C Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1707 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 213555 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 25042 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3672 (B8) Unknown 1 1 9839 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 9839 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 43 672923677 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 23 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4653127 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 363009 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 244814053405 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 145 (DE) Loaded hours 80 80 8181 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 310 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	19.1% Very poor	Read 33.5 Write 32.8 Mixed 33.9 25% 33.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.27 66% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 33%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 94GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 2133 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5434 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15396 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2191 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 924 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4509 (C2) HDA temperature 106 88 37 (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	61.1% Good	Read 109 Write 103 Mixed 89.8 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.24 91% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CML8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 691 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.3% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 16.7 MC Mixed 15.2 46% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 14.5 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z - $150

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	180x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	102x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	32x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	34x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	26x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	26x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
BX500 240GBCrucial $29Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	17x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	19x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	10x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	9x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $666

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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