Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 122% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 106% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 93.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	129% 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	85.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	26.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 19:25
Run Duration	284 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.6% Outstanding	Memory 95.5 1-Core 149 2-Core 266 96% 170 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 806 80% 650 Pts	64-Core 805 50% 805 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3769) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2916 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 180 Reflection 200 Parallax 196 146% 192 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 174 Splatting 127 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 223GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3810984 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 42528766177610 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 335 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 51 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 41 73017131039 (C2) HDA temperature 31 41 73017131039 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3810984 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3810984 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3810984 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 81604378625 (E9) Unknown 0 0 15865 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13209 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13209 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1115 (F4) Unknown 99 99 4325434	68.2% Good	Read 335 Write 231 Mixed 254 61% 274 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 74.9 4K Mixed 20.5 109% 41.2 MB/s	DQ Read 188 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 62.1 83% 150 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 84%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 152GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR021 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 760 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 328 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 85 (AE) Unknown 100 100 44 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 55 193274511392 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 42705374788 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1338006601 (F8) Unknown 100 100 352183673 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1908 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	85.8% Excellent	Read 477 Write 332 Mixed 334 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 76.3 4K Mixed 26.1 114% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 14.6 81% 187 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 99%
Sandisk S128G 126GB 21,984 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 117GB free Firmware: 3.2.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16764 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 616 (A5) Unknown 100 100 689014 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 176 (AE) Unknown 100 100 45 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 32 219043921952 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 586 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 422 (F1) Unknown 100 100 19016048888 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4476259789	46.7% Average	Read 347 Write 293 Mixed 286 69% 309 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 16.4 4K Mixed 9.13 46% 14.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38.4 DQ Write 17.9 DQ Mixed 7.53 11% 21.2 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 56%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 228GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 8 (03) Spinup time 173 170 4350 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7363 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18794 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 780 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 120 120 242785 (C2) HDA temperature 118 101 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	65.1% Good	Read 115 Write 111 Mixed 105 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.17 84% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 84%
Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 160GB-$82 3,253 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 125GB free Firmware: SB4OC7BP Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 100 34359738368 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3864 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 720939 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 20872 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3342 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 95 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 29 29 716582 (C2) HDA temperature 171 82 287763791904 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 7 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	24.2% Poor	Read 43.9 Write 40.3 Mixed 41.7 32% 42 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.22 66% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 24.2% Great: 25%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 4GB free Firmware: 12.01B02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 161 158 4908 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13147 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 45270 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2275 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 258 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 13147 (C2) HDA temperature 114 85 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	20.8% Poor	Read 36 Write 35.9 Mixed 37.3 28% 36.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.4 107% 1 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 20.8% Great: 60%
WD My Passport Essential 320GB 787 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 158GB free, PID 070a Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	15.6% Very poor	Read 35.6 Write 30.8 Mixed 26.2 38% 30.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.1 45% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 15.6% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB 4,269 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	MC Read 34 MC Write 35.9 MC Mixed 28.1 93% 32.7 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 37.3 SC Mixed 26.9 81% 28.3 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 113%

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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	4,554x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	440x
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	345x
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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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 $178	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