Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 130% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 103% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	140% 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	194% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 06 '18 at 18:26
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 89.9 1-Core 144 2-Core 287 95% 174 Pts	4-Core 562 8-Core 567 75% 564 Pts	64-Core 565 35% 565 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2927 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	Lighting 202 Reflection 205 Parallax 188 165% 198 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 188 Splatting 130 121% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 92GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 2517357 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 110440789058992 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2245 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 545 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2517357 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2517357 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2517357 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3180 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3414 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3414 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5190	59% Above average	Read 212 Write 164 Mixed 151 39% 176 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 16.3 116% 49 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 37.2 62% 119 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 66%
Adata XPG SX8000 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$100 2,434 User benchmarks, average bench 143% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: C2.2.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	194% Outstanding	Read 1,760 Write 1,104 Mixed 1,321 309% 1,395 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 29.2 164% 67.6 MB/s	DQ Read 36.8 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 28.7 66% 127 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 194% Great: 181%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 21GB free Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -37245956378515 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2120 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 552 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6218 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8055 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8055 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9435	49.9% Average	Read 192 Write 108 Mixed 121 31% 140 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 16.6 113% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 24.7 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 33.7 35% 55 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 61%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 6 (03) Spinup time 177 171 8133 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1075 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4298 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 934 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 131 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 130 130 211423 (C2) HDA temperature 130 105 22 (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 6	67.1% Good	Read 131 Write 103 Mixed 109 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.18 75% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 931GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 85788466 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3358 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 212815839 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10988 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2535 (B7) Unknown 1 1 184 (B8) Unknown 1 1 720 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 180391386395 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 56 370409494 (C2) HDA temperature 22 44 55834574870 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 19 16 85788466 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 18857 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 95099165886014 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1599218892 (F2) Unknown 100 253 462648858	64.1% Good	Read 115 Write 108 Mixed 104 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.56 128% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GB-$90 9,857 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 23 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 24 SC Mixed 20.7 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 98%

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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	4,552x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	596x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	891x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	439x
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	344x
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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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