Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14.5% 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	60.9% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	6.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 20 '16 at 22:11
Run Duration	682 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 108 2-Core 218 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 424 57% 425 Pts	64-Core 425 26% 425 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 83.2% 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. 16.300.2511.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	14.5% Very poor	Lighting 18.2 Reflection 17 Parallax 22.7 15% 19.3 fps	MRender 14.2 Gravity 16.4 Splatting 19.1 14% 16.6 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.5% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY XLR8 240GB-$212 552 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 9933811 (05) Reallocated sector count 94 94 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -135214160412620 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 38 98786738205 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9933811 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9933811 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9933811 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 21474836480 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1553 (EA) Unknown 0 0 122 (F1) Unknown 0 0 122 (F2) Unknown 0 0 180	60.9% Good	Read 508 Write 181 Mixed 249 68% 313 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 92.8 4K Mixed 10.8 94% 41.4 MB/s	DQ Read 24.3 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 40.9 38% 55.4 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 86%
Sandisk S128G 126GB 21,984 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 117GB free Firmware: 3.2.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7114 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (A5) Unknown 100 100 15946 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 32 227634380832 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 10 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 34 (F1) Unknown 100 100 764269109 (F2) Unknown 100 100 18201329	50.6% Above average	Read 454 Write 298 Mixed 311 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 11.1 4K Mixed 8.34 44% 12.6 MB/s	DQ Read 36.5 DQ Write 17.4 DQ Mixed 3 9% 19 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 56%
Ssd2sc12 0G726A104-475-27 120GB 24 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 35GB free Firmware: 524ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 2995232 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 129278515611110 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 92 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 20 (B1) Unknown 0 0 47 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 85902295071 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2995232 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2995232 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2995232 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 86 86 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 43889 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9819 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9819 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10813	32.1% Below average	Read 491 Write 1.21 Mixed 2.13 34% 165 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 0.62 4K Mixed 1.91 46% 10.4 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 32.1% Great: 68%
Intel X25-E Extreme 32GB 215 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 21GB free Firmware: 045C8850 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 0 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 0 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21605 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 454 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 232 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 130838 (E2) Load-in time 255 0 4294967295 (E3) Torque amplification count 0 0 -1 (E4) Power-off retract count 0 0 4294967295	58.8% Above average	Read 266 Write 209 Mixed 228 52% 234 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 21.6 94% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 135 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 87 85% 134 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 57%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 14GB free Firmware: DXT08B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7350 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1096 (B1) Unknown 97 97 31 (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 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 170 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3931308459	63.1% Good	Read 493 Write 116 Mixed 72.5 49% 227 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 71.6 4K Mixed 9.75 96% 37.2 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 85.6 DQ Mixed 24.8 66% 147 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 73%

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 1333 MHz clocked @ 1400 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	56.7% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 17.5 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 18.2 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 62.7 64% 62.7 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 54%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

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