Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


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 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 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.6% 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	251% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	26.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160302
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 05 '16 at 20:58
Run Duration	239 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	8%

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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 142 2-Core 266 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 693 73% 584 Pts	64-Core 697 43% 697 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4998) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 116 Parallax 113 92% 114 fps	MRender 94 Gravity 100 Splatting 87 76% 93.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 234GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	251% Outstanding	Read 1,974 Write 1,289 Mixed 1,362 341% 1,542 MB/s	4K Read 52.6 4K Write 187 4K Mixed 44.1 235% 94.5 MB/s	DQ Read 711 DQ Write 365 DQ Mixed 229 252% 435 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 251% Great: 283%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 109GB free Firmware: 5.07 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 -32547262139947 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1755 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 736 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18653 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13292 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13292 (F2) Unknown 0 0 22036	50.3% Above average	Read 186 Write 102 Mixed 117 30% 135 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 15.6 111% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 31.2 43% 79.1 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 61%
OCZ ARC 100 240GB-$120 11,799 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 68GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7185 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1116 (AB) Unknown 100 100 80067408 (AE) Unknown 100 100 256 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 298 (D2) Unknown 100 100 146 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 91 91 91 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15545 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8934 (F9) Unknown 100 100 1180942748	82.4% Excellent	Read 357 Write 400 Mixed 375 85% 378 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 87.5 4K Mixed 22.5 113% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 232 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 73.6 97% 175 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 117063976 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 283 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2999057 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 828 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 282 (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 64 62 623050788 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2032 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 98784247844 (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 -37954625994086 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8195630345 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2043816836
Poor: 51% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 215586096 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1349 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 14626587 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8081 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1273 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 63 56 639893541 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 407 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4531 (C2) HDA temperature 37 44 81604378661 (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 -29819957928299 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23060593663 (F2) Unknown 100 253 51046246286
Poor: 51% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 44191408 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 333 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4270845 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 996 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 328 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 66 63 606142498 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 123 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3553 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 90194313250 (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 87355339834092 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9384230233 (F2) Unknown 100 253 516800892677	76.1% Very good	Read 126 Write 140 Mixed 109 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.17 60% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 511GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 101372672 (03) Spinup time 100 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4583 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 4520146284 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 26116 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4314 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 9 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 133 (BE) vendor-specific 58 43 151064805418 (C2) HDA temperature 42 57 73014444074 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 24 101372672 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 62689342678498 (F1) Unknown 100 253 752292557 (F2) Unknown 100 253 173864760	48.4% Average	Read 85.5 Write 82.9 Mixed 80 62% 82.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.45 99% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 4x8GB-$165 7,179 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	82% Excellent	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 31.4 MC Mixed 26.3 82% 28.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 32.2 SC Mixed 23.8 71% 25 GB/s	Latency 59.3 67% 59.3 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 118%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

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 $242Bench 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