Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.6% 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	78.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160302
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	May 18 '16 at 00:12
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 122 2-Core 249 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 700 69% 562 Pts	64-Core 695 43% 695 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855C) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6519 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.6% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 107 Parallax 98.1 86% 104 fps	MRender 89.2 Gravity 93.4 Splatting 84.4 72% 89 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 148GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1533 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 232 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 64 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 751409188	121% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 416 Mixed 422 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 48.9 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 49.8 195% 68.7 MB/s	DQ Read 387 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 118 148% 264 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
Intel 330 Series 240GB 1,960 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -26422637902050 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1465 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1464 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 312153 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 312153 (F2) Unknown 100 100 428672 (F9) Unknown 100 100 11422	78.3% Very good	Read 490 Write 210 Mixed 248 69% 316 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 16.9 123% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 267 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 61.1 94% 179 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 91%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 908GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 159 6808 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4695 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11096 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2060 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 119 119 245833 (C2) HDA temperature 124 111 26 (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	58.1% Above average	Read 102 Write 99.9 Mixed 96.6 75% 99.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.24 93% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB-$80 110,884 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.9% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 24.2 77% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 28.6 SC Mixed 23.1 66% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 114%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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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	4,551x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	596x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	890x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	439x
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	344x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 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 $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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