Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 94.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	79.8% 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 Drive	193% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151001
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Aug 17 '16 at 08:10
Run Duration	421 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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-$219 588,978 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 (100^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 142 2-Core 282 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 756 78% 627 Pts	64-Core 759 47% 759 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.8% Very good	Lighting 103 Reflection 109 Parallax 97.4 84% 103 fps	MRender 90.1 Gravity 94 Splatting 83.4 72% 89.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$182 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 308GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1527 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 311 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 71 65 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 41 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3348450300	123% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 498 Mixed 508 114% 510 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 49.2 180% 66.8 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 335 DQ Mixed 169 178% 295 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 124%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	193% Outstanding	Read 1,653 Write 832 Mixed 1,071 261% 1,185 MB/s	4K Read 49.2 4K Write 149 4K Mixed 29.8 191% 75.8 MB/s	DQ Read 620 DQ Write 322 DQ Mixed 195 218% 379 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 193% Great: 243%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4569704 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 128 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 150557 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 228 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 43 (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 75 66 555221017 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 498 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 94489280537 (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 53072910876722 (F1) Unknown 100 253 577335645 (F2) Unknown 100 253 121947753	110% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 183 Mixed 179 141% 187 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.2 83% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 114%
Toshiba External USB 3.0 1TB 280 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 759GB free Firmware: 0101 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	58.6% Above average	Read 103 Write 101 Mixed 97.6 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 65%
Samsung Flash Drive DUO 32GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 0GB free Firmware: 1100 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	14.6% Very poor	Read 38.3 Write 11.9 Mixed 28.8 20% 26.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.16 4K Write 0.05 4K Mixed 0.05 138% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 14.6% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$48 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36.8 MC Write 38.4 MC Mixed 31.6 102% 35.6 GB/s	SC Read 22.3 SC Write 39.8 SC Mixed 31.7 89% 31.3 GB/s	Latency 51.4 78% 51.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 104%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $219Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,598x
Core i5-6600KIntel $122Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	853x
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	604x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	997x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	898x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	476x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	443x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	319x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	181x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	350x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	256x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	138x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $747

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16