Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	92.4% 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	70.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140128
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 05 '16 at 03:52
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 118 2-Core 234 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 627 65% 522 Pts	64-Core 612 38% 612 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 118 Parallax 101 97% 113 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 163GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5486 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 660 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 52 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4858238014	96.6% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 353 Mixed 353 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 84.6 4K Mixed 23.1 142% 50.8 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 22.5 92% 209 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 118%
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -69337952024401 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 463 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 4 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 16 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 26 36 68721836058 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 88890 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 60 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 88890 (F2) Unknown 100 100 133789 (F9) Unknown 100 100 14481	70.7% Very good	Read 501 Write 224 Mixed 266 72% 330 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 13.6 118% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 29.8 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 11.4 28% 54.7 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 91%
Ocz-agil OCZ-AGILITY3 250GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 11GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3182 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 559 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 47 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5721750296	108% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 494 Mixed 508 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 47.4 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 34.1 179% 67 MB/s	DQ Read 49 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 32.9 42% 71.7 MB/s
Poor: 102% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 76GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 4 (03) Spinup time 197 173 3150 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1851 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8167 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1241 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 209 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1641 (C2) HDA temperature 117 105 30 (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 48	49.4% Average	Read 86.6 Write 85.3 Mixed 79.2 63% 83.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.34 92% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x4GB 6,123 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.6% Above average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 15.3 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16.6 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 90%

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Gaming 41%

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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	1,155x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	409x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	174x

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	50x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $640

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