Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.8% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 13 '17 at 17:59
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 126 2-Core 248 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 438 57% 431 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 114 Parallax 97.4 92% 108 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 99.5 Splatting 96.4 80% 97.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 480GB 11,256 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 408GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	Read 854 Write 332 Mixed 412 116% 533 MB/s	4K Read 24.3 4K Write 92.5 4K Mixed 18.8 110% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 188 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 65.1 95% 175 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 182%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 144GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2116 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 673 (B1) Unknown 95 95 23 (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 61 46 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9742719043	88.8% Excellent	Read 489 Write 275 Mixed 277 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 64.8 4K Mixed 30.4 136% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 67 103% 199 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 114%
Seagate Momentus XT SSHD 2.5" 500GB-$35 11,469 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 281GB free Firmware: SD28 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 238818566 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2941 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 44379578 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4176 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1608 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 50 572260385 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 354 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10543 (C2) HDA temperature 33 50 73014444065 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 42 238818566 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	51.5% Above average	Read 91.2 Write 88.3 Mixed 89.1 68% 89.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.26 68% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 22.6 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 26.9 SC Mixed 24.9 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 90%

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Desktop 87%

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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	4,542x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	840x
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 $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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