Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.1% 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	112% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	55.9 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 05 '17 at 21:41
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	23%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 92.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 267 91% 164 Pts	4-Core 514 8-Core 518 69% 516 Pts	64-Core 520 32% 520 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 375.57 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 117 Parallax 101 92% 110 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 83% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 349GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 112 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 37 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 63 61 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 957556781	112% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 398 Mixed 416 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 93.4 4K Mixed 55 190% 64.8 MB/s	DQ Read 276 DQ Write 92.8 DQ Mixed 116 104% 162 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 129GB free Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	275% Outstanding	Read 2,139 Write 1,368 Mixed 1,383 360% 1,630 MB/s	4K Read 50.6 4K Write 231 4K Mixed 59.9 276% 114 MB/s	DQ Read 772 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 233 245% 418 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 275% Great: 283%
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 36GB free Firmware: X411 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 100 100 3000 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 668 (A5) Unknown 100 100 9896050 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 53 (A8) Unknown 100 100 12 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1122 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 274 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 64 274879283234 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 137440788512 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2118 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2359 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2162 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2672 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	61.8% Good	Read 452 Write 101 Mixed 106 47% 220 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 61.3 4K Mixed 18.5 96% 35.4 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 64.4 DQ Mixed 26.2 65% 146 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 4x16GB 2,431 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	85.9% Excellent	MC Read 30.6 MC Write 32.4 MC Mixed 28.7 87% 30.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.7 SC Write 33.2 SC Mixed 26 74% 26 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 122%

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

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