Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	112% 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	285% 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	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 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	24.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '18 at 22:07
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (44^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 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 89.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 265 90% 162 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 688 72% 580 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	112% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 209 Parallax 216 112% 187 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 189 Splatting 131 123% 152 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 298GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	285% Outstanding	Read 2,540 Write 1,272 Mixed 1,218 368% 1,677 MB/s	4K Read 60.2 4K Write 180 4K Mixed 43.6 242% 94.5 MB/s	DQ Read 912 DQ Write 657 DQ Mixed 202 308% 590 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 285% Great: 254%
Samsung SSD 500GB 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 211GB free Firmware: EXT0 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 93 93 35232 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1586 (B1) Unknown 97 97 36 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 72 50 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1380 (F1) Unknown 99 99 56827397532	102% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 234 Mixed 500 92% 415 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 38.1 180% 66 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 308 DQ Mixed 87.3 127% 236 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 135%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2.5TB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 222 8800 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11400 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 45977 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1784 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1442 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9957 (C2) HDA temperature 124 105 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	67.1% Good	Read 117 Write 116 Mixed 120 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 2.62 4K Mixed 0.48 145% 1.38 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 85%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 591GB free Firmware: 80.0 Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	48.4% Average	Read 91.7 Write 76.8 Mixed 78.2 62% 82.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.22 64% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 88%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 459GB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 168 6583 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 198 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1238 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 198 (C2) HDA temperature 123 117 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	70.2% Very good	Read 117 Write 127 Mixed 120 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.21 102% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 100%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 121GB free Firmware: 82.0 Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	55.7% Above average	Read 94.4 Write 99.3 Mixed 90.3 71% 94.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.25 106% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 76,101 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB 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	75% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 24 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 25.6 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 68.2 59% 68.2 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 106%

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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 $295	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