Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	41.3% 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	74.5% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '17 at 05:39
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	34%

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PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 134 2-Core 273 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 735 74% 603 Pts	64-Core 715 44% 715 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8596) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2012 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	41.3% Average	Lighting 46.7 Reflection 53.8 Parallax 43.8 38% 48.1 fps	MRender 66.6 Gravity 46.7 Splatting 60.9 48% 58.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 480GB-$249 1,770 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 35GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -19481970739778 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 490 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 490 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 490 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3162426 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 37 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3162426 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1886652 (F9) Unknown 100 100 63473	67% Good	Read 506 Write 211 Mixed 227 69% 315 MB/s	4K Read 32.4 4K Write 22.6 4K Mixed 21 88% 25.3 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 71.5 78% 135 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 71%
Intel 520 Series 240GB-$139 12,595 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 100931732375988 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 266 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 266 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 266 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 440172 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 33 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 440172 (F2) Unknown 100 100 219987 (F9) Unknown 100 100 17847	74.5% Very good	Read 424 Write 218 Mixed 252 66% 298 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 16 120% 52.8 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 10.9 64% 148 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 95%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 11GB free Firmware: 5.03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4338084 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 108645492744693 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 95 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 19 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 22 42 51542360086 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4338084 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4338084 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4338084 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4559 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2805 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2805 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3732	73.5% Very good	Read 506 Write 134 Mixed 199 61% 280 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 14.7 134% 55.6 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 41.3 64% 121 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 190GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 8597031 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4630 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 397762009 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 24006 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2690 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032840 (BD) vendor-specific 72 72 28 (BE) vendor-specific 80 59 420741140 (C2) HDA temperature 20 41 60129542164 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 20 19 8597031 (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 53867479857860 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3247040606 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4081398954	45.2% Average	Read 82.2 Write 75.3 Mixed 64.6 55% 74 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.2 72% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GX-D4-3200-MR 2x8GB 3,635 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.5% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 22.5 72% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 27.3 SC Mixed 22.5 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 109%

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

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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	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	841x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	887x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	342x
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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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