Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	115% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	27.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '17 at 04:26
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.3 1-Core 147 2-Core 294 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 533 8-Core 816 84% 675 Pts	64-Core 816 50% 816 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 0426) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Lighting 156 Reflection 146 Parallax 136 127% 146 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 148 Splatting 113 103% 127 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 240GB-$139 12,595 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -98810016704430 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1590 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1583 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1583 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1144695 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 48 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1144695 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1065924 (F9) Unknown 100 100 33904	88.3% Excellent	Read 501 Write 299 Mixed 380 87% 393 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 20.1 129% 54.6 MB/s	DQ Read 296 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 84.3 118% 216 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 931GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 65110593 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2093 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 66 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 4499207583 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 36116 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 571 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 327709 (BD) vendor-specific 81 81 19 (BE) vendor-specific 78 50 487850006 (C2) HDA temperature 22 50 55834574870 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 21 65110593 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 97156455238904 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3135419873 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3125672442	60.7% Good	Read 112 Write 99.1 Mixed 102 79% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.5 106% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 869GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 216951740 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1193 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 37 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 44878478 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 41571 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1194 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 78 193276936318 (BD) vendor-specific 20 20 80 (BE) vendor-specific 78 44 112157065238 (C2) HDA temperature 22 56 60129542166 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 16 216951740 (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 -25658134598798 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2018410606 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2681244356	68.9% Good	Read 120 Write 120 Mixed 113 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.57 121% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 68%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$63 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 408GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 109 105 7516 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9678 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 23 23 56768 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 559 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 239 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 164 164 109515 (C2) HDA temperature 121 81 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	37.6% Below average	Read 68.2 Write 62.6 Mixed 68.3 50% 66.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.32 82% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 57%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 281GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 175 4058 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5951 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16431 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2334 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 891 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5059 (C2) HDA temperature 115 82 32 (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	69% Good	Read 133 Write 108 Mixed 94.2 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.25 74% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB-$110 34,441 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	98.9% Outstanding	MC Read 36.6 MC Write 38.2 MC Mixed 29.2 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 42.2 SC Mixed 30.3 91% 31.7 GB/s	Latency 53.1 75% 53.1 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 105%

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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	4,579x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	845x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	601x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	995x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	473x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	317x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	181x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	348x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $755

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16