Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.2% 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	250% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	28.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 02 '17 at 14:09
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 744 71% 586 Pts	64-Core 742 46% 742 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1440 MHz, MLim: 1777 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 116 Parallax 105 88% 110 fps	MRender 94.8 Gravity 99.3 Splatting 91.2 78% 95.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme 480GB-$300 1,286 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 250GB free Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 8649292 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 67551245632301 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 312 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 38 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 51542622236 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8649292 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8649292 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8649292 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 869 (EA) Unknown 0 0 916 (F1) Unknown 0 0 916 (F2) Unknown 0 0 542	53.2% Above average	Read 491 Write 162 Mixed 244 65% 299 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 14.7 4K Mixed 15.2 60% 17.3 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 56.9 DQ Mixed 62 61% 100 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 66%
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 99,566 User benchmarks, average bench 177% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXB7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	250% Outstanding	Read 2,371 Write 941 Mixed 1,216 330% 1,509 MB/s	4K Read 45.2 4K Write 141 4K Mixed 69.8 232% 85.2 MB/s	DQ Read 705 DQ Write 424 DQ Mixed 233 263% 454 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 250% Great: 236%
Seagate Video SV35.6 Series 3TB-$79 6,381 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 60GB free Firmware: CV23 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 47293408 (03) Spinup time 92 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5316 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25400395 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4618 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1613 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 90195689495 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 410 (BE) vendor-specific 68 50 589168672 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 178 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6574 (C2) HDA temperature 32 50 55834574880 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	58.3% Above average	Read 104 Write 99.5 Mixed 93.9 74% 99.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.15 55% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 CMU16GX4M2C3000C15 CMU16GX4M2A2666C16 CMU16GX4M2C3000C15 32GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 3000, 3000, 3000, 3000 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	MC Read 36 MC Write 37.4 MC Mixed 32.1 100% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 42.2 SC Mixed 32.5 92% 32.2 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 102%

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	841x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	887x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	342x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $1,023

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 $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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