Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	73.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '16 at 06:54
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570-$99 129,272 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 85.5 1-Core 102 2-Core 202 74% 130 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 400 54% 402 Pts	64-Core 399 25% 399 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Asus(1043 043B) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.150.2211.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	14.7% Very poor	Lighting 18.5 Reflection 17.2 Parallax 22.9 15% 19.5 fps	MRender 14.3 Gravity 16.5 Splatting 19.1 14% 16.6 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.7% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY XLR8 240GB-$212 552 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 49412486 (05) Reallocated sector count 94 94 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -38482906972142 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 24 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 13 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 38 98786738208 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 49412486 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 49412486 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 49412486 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 21474836480 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294967259 (EA) Unknown 0 0 81 (F1) Unknown 0 0 81 (F2) Unknown 0 0 356	73.7% Very good	Read 505 Write 203 Mixed 234 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 17.2 120% 50.5 MB/s	DQ Read 97 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 38.5 60% 110 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 86%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 609GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 121 116 6933 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 904 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22443 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 161 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4172 (C2) HDA temperature 114 100 33 (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	64% Good	Read 109 Write 114 Mixed 107 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.21 95% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1333EL Series 2x4GB 878 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	54.2% Above average	MC Read 19 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 16.9 53% 18.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 71.6 56% 71.6 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 54%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO - $190

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,152x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	409x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	174x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	95x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	91x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	88x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	63x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	50x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $639

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