Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 88.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	45.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 16 '18 at 14:41
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing as expected (57^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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 139 2-Core 266 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 695 72% 579 Pts	64-Core 681 42% 681 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3161) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.59 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 43% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 233GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1039 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 274 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 67 66 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 164170114	120% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 501 Mixed 508 113% 505 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 51.1 198% 72.9 MB/s	DQ Read 45.7 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 123 115% 169 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 134GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4047 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5145 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (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 70 54 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 238 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12733645407	87.8% Excellent	Read 508 Write 351 Mixed 354 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 76.4 4K Mixed 22.3 136% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 45.9 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 73 76% 119 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 118%
Kingston A400 120GB-$32 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1039 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 279 (94) Unknown 255 255 0 (95) Unknown 255 255 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 7 (AA) Unknown 100 100 8 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1376308 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 255 255 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C2) HDA temperature 67 65 150325100577 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2151 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2428 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2843 (F4) Unknown 100 100 21 (F5) Unknown 100 100 52 (F6) Unknown 100 100 129168	45.6% Average	Read 263 Write 204 Mixed 260 54% 242 MB/s	4K Read 13.1 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 4.89 60% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 44.9 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 0.72 39% 88.6 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 85%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 723GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 184 184 32287 (03) Spinup time 186 165 5666 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12136 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7952 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 9620 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 219 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 162 162 115998 (C2) HDA temperature 121 99 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 1 1 65516 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 13 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 55	68% Good	Read 117 Write 120 Mixed 119 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.41 4K Mixed 0.23 103% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 63%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 895GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 198 140 (03) Spinup time 108 104 7600 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4599 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12635 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3455 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1028 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 163 163 113602 (C2) HDA temperature 117 96 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	47.7% Average	Read 85.2 Write 80.9 Mixed 83.3 63% 83.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.34 95% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	57.1% Above average	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 17.9 56% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 18.9 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 110%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,186x
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	651x
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 $95Bench 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

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,108

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