Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	56.6% 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	193% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Feb 26 '17 at 15:17
Run Duration	228 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (84^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 140 2-Core 269 95% 169 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 770 79% 640 Pts	64-Core 778 48% 778 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 3978) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	56.6% Above average	Lighting 72.1 Reflection 71.2 Parallax 64.2 59% 69.2 fps	MRender 73.3 Gravity 65.6 Splatting 56.7 52% 65.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120GB-$106 3,124 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 90GB free Firmware: 2.50 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5036556 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -78572131703486 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3267 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 858 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5036556 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5036556 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5036556 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6112 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5374 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5374 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8346	79.7% Very good	Read 499 Write 193 Mixed 242 68% 312 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 20.1 136% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 162 DQ Mixed 64.1 84% 152 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 88%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 128GB-$110 2,093 User benchmarks, average bench 165% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3740 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1564 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 91 91 258 (AE) Unknown 99 99 162 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 445 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 40 34 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 33104 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7605 (F2) Unknown 99 99 8083	193% Outstanding	Read 1,853 Write 642 Mixed 908 248% 1,134 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 141 4K Mixed 44.6 202% 77.4 MB/s	DQ Read 614 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 189 204% 350 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 193% Great: 188%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 40GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3978145 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 -117218247425924 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2213 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 880 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3978145 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3978145 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3978145 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12305 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13231 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13231 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12598	64.6% Good	Read 379 Write 139 Mixed 216 54% 245 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 80.4 4K Mixed 19.2 114% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 182 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 45 68% 129 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 82%
OCZ ONYX 32GB 164 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 16GB free Firmware: 1.7 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 234 41 0 (0C) Power cycle count 177 17 0 (B8) Unknown 58 0 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 0 0 (C4) Reallocation count 0 0 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 0 0 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 204 85 47443 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 10 167 53745 (C8) Write error rate 62 2 1395 (C9) Soft read error rate 222 161 695 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 41 36 562 (CB) Run out cancel 47 87 419 (CC) Soft ECC correction 0 0 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 136 19 0 (CE) Flying height 20 0 0 (CF) Spin high current 149 1 0 (D0) Spin buzz 149 0 0 (D1) Offline seek performance 98 0 0 (D3) Unknown 0 0 0 (D4) Unknown 0 0 0 (D5) Unknown 0 0 0	22.5% Poor	Read 115 Write 56.4 Mixed 80.4 18% 83.9 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 5.43 4K Mixed 3.88 52% 12.9 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 22.5% Great: 26%
Seagate ST3250820AS 250GB-$50 16,391 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 188GB free Firmware: 3.ADG Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 90 39287553 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10654 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 924638649 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21816 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 9120 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 44 588251170 (C2) HDA temperature 34 56 34359738402 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 77 55 243540472 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 190 412 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 251 2	45.2% Average	Read 79 Write 78.5 Mixed 74 58% 77.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.41 93% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 44%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$26 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 127GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 524 (03) Spinup time 132 131 4358 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4690 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25403 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4437 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1525 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4690 (C2) HDA temperature 118 86 25 (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 38 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	54.7% Above average	Read 97.3 Write 93.2 Mixed 89.3 70% 93.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.28 85% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB-$234 3,507 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 37.6 MC Write 41.5 MC Mixed 34.3 108% 37.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 45.3 SC Mixed 33.1 91% 31.8 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 117%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,544x
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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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 $46

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