Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	45.3% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	145% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 01 '16 at 17:28
Run Duration	379 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 0.8 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 93.7 1-Core 51.6 2-Core 228 69% 124 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 675 70% 562 Pts	64-Core 690 43% 690 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 372.90 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	45.3% Average	Lighting 44.9 Reflection 67.2 Parallax 82.5 37% 64.9 fps	MRender 81.9 Gravity 77.7 Splatting 70.2 62% 76.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 66%
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Gigabyte(1458 354E) 2GB CLim: 1254 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 372.90 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	22.5% Poor	Lighting 26.4 Reflection 24.1 Parallax 35 22% 28.5 fps	MRender 34.2 Gravity 30.7 Splatting 25.9 24% 30.3 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 22.5% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 207GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	145% Outstanding	Read 1,628 Write 874 Mixed 1,117 266% 1,206 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 36 4K Mixed 18.9 76% 25.6 MB/s	DQ Read 76.7 DQ Write 62.7 DQ Mixed 30.9 34% 56.8 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 145% Great: 243%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 110GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8379 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1066 (B1) Unknown 95 95 88 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 48 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20553195079	66.5% Good	Read 492 Write 393 Mixed 416 97% 434 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 24.6 4K Mixed 17 68% 21.2 MB/s	DQ Read 56.1 DQ Write 39.5 DQ Mixed 22 23% 39.2 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 901GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 183508660 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 811 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 214948746 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15380 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 771 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 786444 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 521535519 (C2) HDA temperature 31 49 30064771103 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 27 183508660 (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 -96980361526154 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1297267671 (F2) Unknown 100 253 740818750	61.2% Good	Read 113 Write 101 Mixed 84.2 74% 99.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.61 131% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 68%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 304GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 171 163 6416 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6042 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21709 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1710 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 164 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 184 184 48487 (C2) HDA temperature 121 92 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 33 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	49.3% Average	Read 87.7 Write 84.2 Mixed 75.9 62% 82.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.19 67% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 67%
Kingston DataTraveler 101 G2 USB 2.0 4GB-$15 1,780 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 1GB free, PID 1642 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	6.71% Terrible	Read 23.6 Write 5.76 Mixed 9.95 14% 13.1 MB/s	4K Read 8.06 4K Write 0.04 4K Mixed 0.49 48% 2.86 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.71% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	MC Read 27.8 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 20.7 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 27.4 SC Mixed 18.7 59% 20.7 GB/s	Latency 60.5 66% 60.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 80%

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

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Gaming 86%

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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	4,555x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	991x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	441x
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	346x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $958

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $45	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