Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 40% Speed boat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 35% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	38.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	122% 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	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	6.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150714
Uptime	12.7 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 01:14
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 above expectations (72^nd percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 123 2-Core 227 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 559 61% 482 Pts	64-Core 692 43% 692 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R9 290X 3,695 User benchmarks, average bench 49% AMD(1002 0B00) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	38.1% Below average	Lighting 44.7 Reflection 45.7 Parallax 54.2 36% 48.2 fps	MRender 46.6 Gravity 44.1 Splatting 57.4 41% 49.4 fps
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 38.1% Great: 52%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SHSS37A480G 480GB 14,802 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 300GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11718 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1268 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 1062 (AD) Unknown 100 100 327690 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 655365 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 35 (C2) HDA temperature 70 64 154619215902 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2752 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2507 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6187 (F4) Unknown 100 100 5 (F5) Unknown 100 100 10 (F6) Unknown 100 100 748032	98.5% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 506 Mixed 509 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 28.7 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 13.3 116% 49.1 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 12.8 93% 214 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 110%
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: OC34L5TA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 529 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 13946 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1619 (64) Unknown 100 100 7102592 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 16 (AF) Unknown 100 100 1 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 107 (B2) Unknown 100 100 4 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 100 184684052520 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 529 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 294 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 529 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 18544 (F1) Unknown 100 100 16033 (F2) Unknown 100 100 10223 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 2119	122% Outstanding	Read 809 Write 629 Mixed 257 124% 565 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 90.9 4K Mixed 17.8 128% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 391 DQ Write 252 DQ Mixed 17.2 95% 220 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 159%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 666GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 98 73 (03) Spinup time 75 75 8270 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 7914 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 35007 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1844 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 98 72 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 288 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 1 370212886 (C2) HDA temperature 75 59 420479001 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 69895 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 99 99 394 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	57.9% Above average	Read 96.5 Write 105 Mixed 108 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.41 107% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB-$234 3,507 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	95.7% Outstanding	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 38.8 MC Mixed 30.6 100% 34.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 31.2 SC Mixed 25.6 71% 24.8 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 117%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,544x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	840x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	887x
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	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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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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