Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Graphics	21.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	68.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 8 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Very high background CPU (58%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

9 years ago, 9 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 8
BIOS Date	20140605
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '14 at 16:24
Run Duration	228 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	58%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 114 2-Core 227 77% 171 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 639 67% 537 Pts	64-Core 641 40% 641 Pts
Poor: 60% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 8422) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 9.18.13.4411 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	21.8% Poor	Lighting 26.1 Reflection 25.2 Parallax 31.3 21% 27.5 fps	MRender 34.7 Gravity 24 Splatting 26.2 23% 28.3 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.8% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 240GB-$139 12,595 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i 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 0 0 -109452945658819 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 139 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 118 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 118 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 460155 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 69 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 460155 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1024960 (F9) Unknown 100 100 18673	68.5% Good	Read 474 Write 175 Mixed 262 66% 304 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 15 111% 47.3 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 50.4 66% 119 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 95%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 80337768 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 60 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1727709 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8388 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 58 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 74 64 487653402 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12897 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 73014444058 (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 -79336635884605 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3077215717 (F2) Unknown 100 253 942255241	79.2% Very good	Read 132 Write 144 Mixed 146 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.18 68% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 96%
WD My Book 1140 3TB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 814GB free Firmware: 1025 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 177 6033 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3085 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 488 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3085 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2858 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5654 (C2) HDA temperature 132 109 18 (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	83.5% Excellent	Read 149 Write 142 Mixed 137 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.46 4K Mixed 0.25 106% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 494GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 91 1000 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11758 (05) Reallocated sector count 65 65 23104 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19658004 (09) Power-on hours count 23 23 67777 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 199 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 129 (BC) Unknown 100 98 77310590994 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 72 53 487784476 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 148 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11766 (C2) HDA temperature 28 47 81604378652 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 5 1000 (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 -128677220162874 (F1) Unknown 100 253 785899437 (F2) Unknown 100 253 234075767	47.2% Average	Read 84.9 Write 79.7 Mixed 79.1 61% 81.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 0.72 4K Mixed 0.51 94% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 210GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 94306561 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3865 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 48485606 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 22882 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 21475360779 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 5029 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 554893344 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 81604378656 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 11 94306561 (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 -70016556837950 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2798770676 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2853238950	46.7% Average	Read 77.8 Write 84.8 Mixed 74.5 59% 79.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.31 74% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 68%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 6GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 237293079 (03) Spinup time 100 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 77 77 24289 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 76202963 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 46717 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 47 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 283 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 65547 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 332 (BE) vendor-specific 67 47 571539489 (C2) HDA temperature 33 53 68719476769 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 16 237293079 (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 90439126396913 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2463954257 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3229283335	31.7% Below average	Read 54.6 Write 55.7 Mixed 55.1 42% 55.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.33 74% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 66%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO - $190

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,161x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	410x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	176x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	95x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	91x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	88x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	63x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	51x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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 $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16