Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 92%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.63% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	76.7% 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 8.1 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20151211
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 04 '16 at 23:27
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92% Outstanding	Memory 95.1 1-Core 134 2-Core 265 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 711 74% 595 Pts	64-Core 736 46% 736 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4300 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.63% Terrible	Lighting 7.77 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 8.12 6% 9.37 fps	MRender 11.8 Gravity 7.1 Splatting 16.6 10% 11.8 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.63% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow KC300 120GB-$80 2,344 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 37235857 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 82781199664085 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 967 (0D) Soft read error rate 95 95 37235857 (64) Unknown 0 0 20559 (AA) Unknown 0 0 3552 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 35 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 46 38657720349 (C2) HDA temperature 29 46 38657720349 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 37235857 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 120 120 49001281880064 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 37235857 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 37235857 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E8) Unknown 0 0 13 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17778 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3202 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3202 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3295	76.7% Very good	Read 494 Write 202 Mixed 245 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 18.3 130% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 170 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 57.8 72% 128 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 86%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 191 173 7441 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 393 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 354 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 153 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17580 (C2) HDA temperature 119 101 33 (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	61.1% Good	Read 108 Write 104 Mixed 115 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.2 93% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 87%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 403GB free Firmware: 17.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 150 140 3483 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1753 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 2933 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1261 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 239 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1513 (C2) HDA temperature 111 93 32 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	73.9% Very good	Read 132 Write 125 Mixed 121 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.38 101% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2800 C16 2x8GB 209 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	MC Read 33.8 MC Write 35.4 MC Mixed 29.1 94% 32.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 36.7 SC Mixed 28.3 81% 28.3 GB/s	Latency 56.9 70% 56.9 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 101%

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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	4,554x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	440x
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	345x
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 $177	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