Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 122% UFO	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 105% UFO


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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.4%, 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	184% 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.

Very high background CPU (45%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 13 '18 at 20:07
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	45%

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 i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Memory 98.2 1-Core 138 2-Core 274 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 488 8-Core 777 78% 632 Pts	64-Core 780 48% 780 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 176 Reflection 194 Parallax 189 144% 186 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 171 Splatting 121 113% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 960GB-$190 3,375 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 500GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1189 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 350 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C2) HDA temperature 76 60 171799871512 (F1) Unknown 100 100 88540	80.3% Excellent	Read 517 Write 351 Mixed 354 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 65.3 4K Mixed 9.85 92% 34.9 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 47.1 97% 201 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 103%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	184% Outstanding	Read 1,543 Write 1,023 Mixed 1,079 269% 1,215 MB/s	4K Read 53.6 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 23.6 169% 62.1 MB/s	DQ Read 300 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 25.4 84% 185 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 184% Great: 236%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 104GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5089167 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -96739843367861 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1370 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 43 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 49 81607589915 (C2) HDA temperature 27 49 81607589915 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5089167 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5089167 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5089167 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8386 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4070 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4070 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4746	77.7% Very good	Read 517 Write 183 Mixed 269 71% 323 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 97 4K Mixed 20.6 128% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 58.9 81% 150 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 87%
Corsair Force LE 240GB-$85 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 60GB free Firmware: SAFC12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1886 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 548 (A2) Unknown 100 100 250 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196617 (AE) Unknown 100 100 19 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1112 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2489	77.2% Very good	Read 514 Write 351 Mixed 352 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 70 4K Mixed 10.1 95% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 140 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 48.2 76% 142 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 97%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 29GB free Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 2485949 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 -4294967280874 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2254 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 18 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2485949 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2485949 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2485949 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5435 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3630 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3630 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10451	51.2% Above average	Read 198 Write 118 Mixed 129 33% 148 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 12.8 108% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 135 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 31.9 48% 90.9 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3600 C16 2x8GB 11,301 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	MC Read 43.5 MC Write 45.5 MC Mixed 31.6 115% 40.2 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 46.4 SC Mixed 34.2 99% 34.6 GB/s	Latency 44.9 89% 44.9 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%

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Desktop 90%

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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	3,189x
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	652x
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 $92Bench 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 $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