Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 120% UFO	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 106% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	127% 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	295% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 09 '17 at 03:10
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 149 2-Core 298 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 806 79% 645 Pts	64-Core 805 50% 805 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 872F) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4815 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	8.17% Terrible	Lighting 8.67 Reflection 11.9 Parallax 8.53 7% 9.69 fps	MRender 11.8 Gravity 7.6 Splatting 16.8 10% 12 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 8.17% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 176 Reflection 201 Parallax 176 144% 184 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 170 Splatting 124 114% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 782GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	295% Outstanding	Read 2,838 Write 1,491 Mixed 1,576 433% 1,968 MB/s	4K Read 60.3 4K Write 160 4K Mixed 42 230% 87.3 MB/s	DQ Read 591 DQ Write 439 DQ Mixed 196 233% 409 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 295% Great: 302%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 116GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15883 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1047 (B1) Unknown 96 96 38 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 66 52 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 172 (F1) Unknown 99 99 43119738590	92.5% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 338 Mixed 359 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 84.9 4K Mixed 29.5 153% 53.7 MB/s	DQ Read 47.1 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 84.5 82% 123 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 126%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6715 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 372 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 362 (0A) Spinup retry count 107 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 560 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 167504642077 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 234 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 556 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	98.3% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 172 Mixed 162 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 2.63 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.31 182% 1.66 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 104%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 161 6558 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3510 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25438 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1282 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 317 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 63560 (C2) HDA temperature 123 108 27 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	64.9% Good	Read 112 Write 114 Mixed 100 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.16 91% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 11,954 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	MC Read 33.9 MC Write 34.7 MC Mixed 26.1 90% 31.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 34.5 SC Mixed 28.6 76% 26.7 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 107%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,186x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	651x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	446x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,107

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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