Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.2% 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	79.3% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '20 at 07:22
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing way above expectations (88^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-$270 482,067 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.9 1-Core 127 2-Core 259 92% 161 Pts	4-Core 516 8-Core 684 79% 600 Pts	64-Core 688 46% 688 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 95%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$330 993,871 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2202 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 451.48 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 119 Parallax 110 86% 112 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 107 Splatting 106 86% 106 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 128GB-$46 728 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4120000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 112 89 94 92 87 89 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	79.3% Very good	Read 495 Write 301 Mixed 276 SusWrite 93.8 64% 291 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 38.7 131% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 364 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 216 182% 268 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 93%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$29 2,182,040 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 859GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 180 179 182 182 179 182 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 161 Mixed 106 SusWrite 180 119% 162 MB/s	4K Read 1.5 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1.2 250% 1.87 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%
Toshiba X300 4TB-$100 14,713 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 584GB free Firmware: FP2A SusWrite @10s intervals: 187 180 185 182 163 185 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 60% Great: 106%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2800 C17 2x8GB 1,613 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	MC Read 34.4 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 25 89% 31.1 GB/s	SC Read 20.5 SC Write 34.3 SC Mixed 28.4 79% 27.7 GB/s	Latency 54.2 74% 54.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 98%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds.

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 78%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $220

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $270Bench 84%, 482,067 samples	5,432x
Core i5-6600KIntel $187Bench 80%, 286,724 samples	1,241x
Core i7-7700KIntel $379Bench 88%, 484,815 samples	649x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $450Bench 106%, 786,866 samples	1,258x
GTX 1070Nvidia $330Bench 79%, 993,871 samples	1,199x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $808Bench 136%, 606,625 samples	704x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $125Bench 111%, 615,795 samples	714x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $70Bench 105%, 768,156 samples	525x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $110Bench 113%, 381,099 samples	224x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $71Bench 83%, 417,739 samples	535x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $79Bench 85%, 377,979 samples	324x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $70Bench 78%, 86,064 samples	186x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $1,136

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-10600K $257	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Crucial MX500 250GB $47
Intel Core i5-9600K $219	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i5-10400F $161	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $40

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $79	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $71	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16