Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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.
Graphics	92.4% 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	114% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	4.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 11 '17 at 20:21
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (84^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 134 2-Core 261 90% 162 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 727 73% 594 Pts	64-Core 714 44% 714 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 119 Parallax 100 97% 113 fps	MRender 99.2 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 88%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.55% Terrible	Lighting 8.07 Reflection 11.8 Parallax 8.09 7% 9.31 fps	MRender 9.52 Gravity 7.13 Splatting 16.1 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.55% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSNF256GCSS 256GB 194 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 237GB free Firmware: FSTAN103 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^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 17493 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 792 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 93 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 184 184 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 165 (C2) HDA temperature 75 46 231928954905 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	97.1% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 447 Mixed 496 107% 480 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 47.4 4K Mixed 39 110% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 217 195% 296 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 93%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 149GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16578 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 855 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 73 60 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2961917238	108% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 478 Mixed 509 112% 500 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 28.6 146% 57.4 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 87.7 137% 260 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 116%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2535 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 223 (B1) Unknown 99 99 20 (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 69 50 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13112527142	114% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 397 Mixed 418 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 96.4 4K Mixed 47.8 180% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 114 141% 252 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	75.1% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.3 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 27.5 SC Mixed 23.7 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 88%

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

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