Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.6% 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	78.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit väriä
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	12.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 23 '16 at 21:21
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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 (95^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 132 2-Core 256 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 694 72% 578 Pts	64-Core 710 44% 710 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.3% 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 CLim: 1472 MHz, MLim: 1875 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.70 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 115 Parallax 103 88% 109 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 100 Splatting 93 78% 96.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC480G1SA754D117-499 480GB 219 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 107GB free Firmware: N1114B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2837 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1149 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 67 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3091 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 101 (E7) Temperature 100 100 33 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 21 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6599 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8540	104% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 421 Mixed 460 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 37.2 150% 59.1 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 291 DQ Mixed 69.5 111% 211 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 104%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 21051088 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 111179523436294 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1899 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1296 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 370 (BD) vendor-specific 28 66 4325404 (C2) HDA temperature 28 66 4325404 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 21051088 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 21051088 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 21051088 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21194 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13219 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13219 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13231	78.8% Very good	Read 519 Write 157 Mixed 193 63% 290 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 20.3 137% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 43.4 76% 148 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 862GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 138342544 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4410 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 50069392 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11702 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1907 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 61 460099813407 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 135 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 48 48 105278 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 -140737488355297 (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 94824287966950 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17265598198 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19798296501	104% Outstanding	Read 189 Write 173 Mixed 156 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.31 96% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3600 C17 2x8GB-$81 1,785 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.6% Good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 20.3 70% 24.4 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 25.5 SC Mixed 22 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 123%

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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	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	841x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	887x
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	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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 $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