Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results

 
Gaming
Gaming 79%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 94%
Nuclear submarine
Workstation
Workstation 68%
Battle cruiser
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics84.4% 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 Drive132% 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.
Memory16GB 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 VersionAlthough Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.
Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.
MotherboardAsus MAXIMUS VIII HERO  (all builds)
Memory10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 7
BIOS Date20161216
Uptime0.1 Days
Run DateNov 21 '18 at 00:21
Run Duration109 Seconds
Run User USA-User
Background CPU 31%

 PC Performing above expectations (71st percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180
LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 4 GHz
Performing way above expectations (98th percentile)
90.7% Outstanding
Memory 93.6
1-Core 130
2-Core 268
91% 164 Pts
4-Core 473
8-Core 729
74% 601 Pts
64-Core 727
45% 727 Pts
Poor: 70%
This bench: 90.7%
Great: 90%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560
CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 411.63
Performing way above expectations (87th percentile)
84.4% Excellent
Lighting 109
Reflection 115
Parallax 115
89% 113 fps
MRender 94.7
Gravity 99.2
Splatting 87.5
76% 93.8 fps
Poor: 70%
This bench: 84.4%
Great: 87%
Drive BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Samsun 850 EVO 4TB
986GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 445 464 453 441 427 433 MB/s
Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
132% Outstanding
Read 497
Write 485
Mixed 431
SusWrite 444
105% 464 MB/s
4K Read 44.7
4K Write 138
4K Mixed 66.8
226% 83 MB/s
DQ Read 332
DQ Write 340
DQ Mixed 66
124% 246 MB/s
Poor: 98%
This bench: 132%
Great: 132%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB
2 of 4 slots used
16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz
Performing below potential (27th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP
73.1% Very good
MC Read 27.7
MC Write 27.8
MC Mixed 20.8
73% 25.4 GB/s
SC Read 17.1
SC Write 27.8
SC Mixed 23.3
65% 22.7 GB/s
Latency 60.8
66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 60%
This bench: 73.1%
Great: 103%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

Typical MAXIMUS VIII HERO Builds (Compare 7,125 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 86%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 87%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 72%
Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 99% - Outstanding Total price: $742
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