Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 97.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	85.6% 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	117% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 01:43
Run Duration	323 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	Memory 95.5 1-Core 150 2-Core 295 99% 180 Pts	4-Core 538 8-Core 781 82% 659 Pts	64-Core 745 46% 745 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 2992) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 122 Parallax 104 90% 112 fps	MRender 95.5 Gravity 104 Splatting 86.7 77% 95.4 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 219GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6259 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 556 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 72 67 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 33 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12105966781	117% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 402 Mixed 416 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 50.2 188% 65.7 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 121 143% 249 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 134%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 111GB free Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 89 89 5472987 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 6932077240960 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4336 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 24 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 56 30068441113 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5472987 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5472987 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5472987 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11798 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7153 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7153 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11183	74.4% Very good	Read 509 Write 131 Mixed 196 60% 279 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 17.8 135% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 48.1 68% 126 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 83%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 135268800 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 558 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 34463 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6187 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 559 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 8590131203 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 68 487850011 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 27 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14334 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 25769803803 (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 93673236730692 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11886650 (F2) Unknown 100 253 45251704	86.3% Excellent	Read 155 Write 146 Mixed 146 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.22 87% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 723GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51753178 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9422 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 52 51 150329185546 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4363 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 571801632 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 42949672992 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 20 12 51753178 (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 37155762102786 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3370409456 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4219458689	62.3% Good	Read 108 Write 109 Mixed 107 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.6 123% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 68%
TOSHIBA TransMemory 8GB 12,066 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 7GB free, PID 6544 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	8.49% Terrible	Read 33.5 Write 7.81 Mixed 11.6 18% 17.6 MB/s	4K Read 4.88 4K Write 0.25 4K Mixed 0.23 34% 1.79 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 8.49% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C14 4x8GB 145 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	MC Read 32.5 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 29 91% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 37.5 SC Mixed 29.8 85% 29.8 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 133%

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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	4,546x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	842x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x
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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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