Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 89.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	105% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	75.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	26 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	17 Days
Run Date	Aug 28 '17 at 06:28
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing as expected (54^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 254 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 701 71% 573 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 151 Parallax 128 113% 139 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 132 Splatting 104 93% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 302GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 879 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 200 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 78 60 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1182407269	80.1% Excellent	Read 498 Write 402 Mixed 414 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 28 4K Mixed 22.3 70% 22.6 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 123 143% 247 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 298GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 884 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 213 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5029768921	75.8% Very good	Read 498 Write 402 Mixed 418 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 32 4K Mixed 13.6 60% 20.7 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 109 135% 240 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 131%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 93191856 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3828 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 21520369339 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8130 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1673 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 521207839 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 100 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 53503 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 55834574879 (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 -5102421144017 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15075541766 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24212279185	93.3% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 161 Mixed 143 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.26 72% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M4C3000C15 4x8GB 4,019 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	99.3% Outstanding	MC Read 36.3 MC Write 38.1 MC Mixed 30.9 100% 35.1 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 41.9 SC Mixed 29.3 88% 30.9 GB/s	Latency 54.8 73% 54.8 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 113%

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

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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	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	842x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	888x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	313x
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 $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 $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) $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