Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 90% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	106% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.8% 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.

High background CPU (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	27.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 21 '17 at 03:01
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

Watch Gameplay: 1080 + 9600K How to compare your gameplay

PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 138 2-Core 263 93% 165 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 807 77% 637 Pts	64-Core 815 50% 815 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 151 Parallax 127 114% 139 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 132 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 864GB free Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	210% Outstanding	Read 1,576 Write 1,107 Mixed 1,089 279% 1,257 MB/s	4K Read 53.9 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 43.7 204% 74.5 MB/s	DQ Read 503 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 178 198% 340 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 210% Great: 302%
Corsair Force GS 240GB-$261 4,179 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 223GB free Firmware: 5.07 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 5165160 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -53369263613337 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2946 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 431 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 45 77312360483 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5165160 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5165160 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5165160 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3768 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3690 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3690 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4341	82.1% Excellent	Read 521 Write 224 Mixed 299 76% 348 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 93.9 4K Mixed 20.4 126% 49.1 MB/s	DQ Read 268 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 54.7 93% 183 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 93%
Corsair Force GS 240GB-$261 4,179 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 159GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 25656515 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -6107443488122 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2982 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 257 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 45 81607327779 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 25656515 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 25656515 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 25656515 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12278 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11033 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11033 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8909	69.8% Good	Read 482 Write 204 Mixed 281 71% 322 MB/s	4K Read 12.4 4K Write 87.5 4K Mixed 23.2 95% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 78.1 93% 164 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 93%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 112GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 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 21 100 21 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 967 (A6) Unknown 100 100 28 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 63 (A9) Unknown 100 100 24 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 56 (AE) Unknown 100 100 86 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 100 219043332132 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6633 (F1) Unknown 253 253 806 (F2) Unknown 253 253 878	87% Excellent	Read 505 Write 415 Mixed 448 102% 456 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 4.89 107% 45.9 MB/s	DQ Read 265 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 32 91% 193 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 78%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 466GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 226582912 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1934 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18842406 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9173 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1550 (B7) Unknown 79 79 21 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 48 622592036 (C2) HDA temperature 36 52 64424509476 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 23 226582912 (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 21676699953692 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2200034177 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3490497651	65.6% Good	Read 113 Write 115 Mixed 107 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.64 138% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 3,140 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 36.9 MC Mixed 30 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 38.5 SC Mixed 29.8 86% 29.9 GB/s	Latency 55.8 72% 55.8 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 161%

Take a copy of your results

System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Custom PC Builder (Explore upgrades for this PC) Build your perfect PC: compare component prices, popularity, speed and value for money

CHOOSE AN UPGRADE:

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

MBD

Typical MAXIMUS IX HERO Builds (Compare 4,164 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 105%

UFO

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 90%

Aircraft carrier

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,189x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	652x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	446x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,107

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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