Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 97.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	116% 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	25.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 26 '17 at 17:38
Run Duration	1775 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing as expected (58^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.6% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 148 2-Core 300 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 565 8-Core 586 76% 576 Pts	64-Core 590 36% 590 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AE) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.5% Good	Lighting 78.5 Reflection 78.8 Parallax 67.9 64% 75.1 fps	MRender 70.8 Gravity 72.6 Splatting 74.3 60% 72.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 147GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4933 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1018 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 51 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13445836993	116% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 414 Mixed 420 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 89.8 4K Mixed 50.3 181% 61.8 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 127 148% 258 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 134%
Intel 330 Series 180GB 5,848 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 110GB free Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -46849502357475 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3011 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2398 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 911296 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 911296 (F2) Unknown 100 100 669511 (F9) Unknown 100 100 28994	74% Very good	Read 496 Write 136 Mixed 237 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 16.9 124% 50.8 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 64.1 92% 174 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 83%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 58GB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 125 (03) Spinup time 178 176 6066 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5089 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 55 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7117 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1804 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 349 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15724 (C2) HDA temperature 106 102 44 (C4) Reallocation count 187 187 13 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	42.4% Average	Read 76 Write 71.5 Mixed 69.7 54% 72.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.25 99% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 88%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 45GB free Firmware: JP4OA3EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 98 (03) Spinup time 118 118 25790775616 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 11323 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 31 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 21207 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4538 (C0) Power-off retract count 89 89 13239 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 13239 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 214749610016 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	41.1% Average	Read 70.6 Write 72.6 Mixed 70.5 54% 71.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.41 94% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 41.1% Great: 74%
WD WD3200KS-00PFB0 320GB 3,103 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 32GB free Firmware: 21.00M21 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 185 5633 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16655 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 33524 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8247 (C2) HDA temperature 96 1 54 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	25.5% Poor	Read 39.3 Write 49.4 Mixed 33.9 30% 40.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.34 82% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 25.5% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 4x8GB 1,993 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3333 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	114% Outstanding	MC Read 40.2 MC Write 44.7 MC Mixed 36.7 116% 40.5 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 47.3 SC Mixed 33.1 99% 34.5 GB/s	Latency 51.8 77% 51.8 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 121%

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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	4,544x
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 $109Bench 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: 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 $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