Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 92.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	54% 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	183% 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.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160302
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 05 '16 at 22:04
Run Duration	225 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.8% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 147 2-Core 275 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 817 80% 654 Pts	64-Core 819 51% 819 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 3975) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6451 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	54% Above average	Lighting 67.7 Reflection 63.2 Parallax 60.7 55% 63.9 fps	MRender 71.2 Gravity 62.9 Splatting 57.7 52% 63.9 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 159GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1225 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 609 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 70 49 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 7 (EB) Unknown 99 99 290 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2521341921
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 132GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	183% Outstanding	Read 1,896 Write 892 Mixed 1,121 286% 1,303 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 162 4K Mixed 24.5 172% 74.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38.3 DQ Write 99.4 DQ Mixed 24.4 31% 54 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 183% Great: 243%
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 105GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 111918258705903 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1898 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1655 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 4873880 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1655 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 472973 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 55 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 472973 (F2) Unknown 100 100 585639 (F9) Unknown 100 100 11383	78.9% Very good	Read 505 Write 159 Mixed 227 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 21.6 139% 55.2 MB/s	DQ Read 224 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 58.7 81% 149 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 88%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$45 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 130971624 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 88 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 835685 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 163 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 74 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 51 571932705 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 552 (C2) HDA temperature 33 49 90194313249 (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 101356933218566 (F1) Unknown 100 253 446523332 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9271379033	89.9% Excellent	Read 130 Write 182 Mixed 148 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 5.37 4K Mixed 0.79 219% 2.3 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 108%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$64 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 324GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5 (03) Spinup time 187 179 6633 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6293 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 31104 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3476 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2288 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 63 63 411319 (C2) HDA temperature 113 87 34 (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 200 151 280431 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.1% Above average	Read 89 Write 95.9 Mixed 94.3 70% 93.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.32 80% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 57%
UFD 3.0 Silicon-Power64G 64GB 398 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 59GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	Read 117 Write 70.3 Mixed 79.8 106% 89 MB/s	4K Read 4.16 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 1.1 101% 2.22 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905625-030.A00G 2x8GB 2,560 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 24.6 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 31.3 SC Mixed 25.3 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 79%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,558x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	992x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	314x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	346x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 70% - Good

Total price: $953

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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