Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 90%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	46.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	18.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 19 '18 at 23:02
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 134 2-Core 259 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 734 74% 601 Pts	64-Core 726 45% 726 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.6% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 116 Parallax 97.8 84% 106 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 95 Splatting 98.3 80% 96.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 56GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 19276965 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -108138686567239 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 841 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 68 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 40 60132163610 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 60132163610 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 19276965 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 19276965 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 19276965 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 64424509440 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4322 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5397 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5397 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6734 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2293776	82.1% Excellent	Read 516 Write 246 Mixed 307 78% 356 MB/s	4K Read 32.4 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 15.7 126% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 216 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 15.6 72% 161 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 85%
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11457 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 843 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 49 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6160510 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 77 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 6 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21537	46.5% Average	Read 373 Write 278 Mixed 249 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 3.77 4K Write 28.9 4K Mixed 9.36 33% 14 MB/s	DQ Read 31.4 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 9.36 33% 68.5 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 91%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 866GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 171 171 4408 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 236 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4992 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 181 181 59636 (C2) HDA temperature 118 111 29 (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	72.5% Very good	Read 133 Write 120 Mixed 133 97% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.19 86% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 93GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 142677520 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1114 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 44894812 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10217 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 720 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 572129310 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 84325 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 55834574878 (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 -106446469460593 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39960787789 (F2) Unknown 100 253 262905271089	94.5% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 156 Mixed 156 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.19 78% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	75.9% Very good	MC Read 27.8 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.8 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 30 SC Mixed 23.4 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 85%

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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	4,543x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	840x
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 $499Bench 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 $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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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