Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (22nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 78 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	94.2% 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	67.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	18.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	4.8 Days
Run Date	Aug 19 '17 at 13:56
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	52%

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PC Performing below expectations (22^nd 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	Memory 72.5 1-Core 109 2-Core 224 74% 135 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 542 58% 463 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	94.2% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 125 Parallax 120 101% 123 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 114 Splatting 86.6 81% 101 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: 505ABBF1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 116 140972479 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 42485816510442 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 928 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 345 (B1) Unknown 0 0 12 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 68 47249096731 (C2) HDA temperature 27 68 47249096731 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 140972479 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 140972479 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 140972479 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 55864 (EA) Unknown 0 0 23448 (F1) Unknown 0 0 23448 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20577	67.9% Good	Read 398 Write 151 Mixed 222 56% 257 MB/s	4K Read 35.3 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 13.2 124% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 35.2 63% 126 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 730GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 101 99 1271200 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3758 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 38861133289 (09) Power-on hours count 30 30 61831 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1643 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 33 (BD) vendor-specific 68 68 32 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 13473546271 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 429 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3902 (C2) HDA temperature 31 41 -140737488355297 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 3 1271200 (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 105789339486336 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3419069056 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2733319738	37.8% Below average	Read 70.3 Write 61.4 Mixed 74.9 52% 68.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.2 46% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 37.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 836 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	34.5% Below average	MC Read 11.7 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 10.9 34% 11.9 GB/s	SC Read 8.8 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 8.7 27% 9.4 GB/s	Latency 95.7 42% 95.7 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 95%

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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	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	842x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	888x
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	313x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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