Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 93%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	71% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	75.6% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit väriä
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 27 '17 at 21:50
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 (99^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Memory 93.6 1-Core 134 2-Core 262 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 733 77% 616 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93% 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: 1316 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	71% Very good	Lighting 90.2 Reflection 90 Parallax 78.6 74% 86.3 fps	MRender 85.6 Gravity 88.1 Splatting 72.4 66% 82 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC480G1SA754D117-499 480GB 219 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 340GB 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 3337 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1271 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 69 (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 3479 (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 23 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6987 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9145	104% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 421 Mixed 461 104% 466 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 36.9 150% 59 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 68.1 109% 209 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 104%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 107 15894960 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 -136734578822826 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2021 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1301 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 370 (BD) vendor-specific 27 66 4325403 (C2) HDA temperature 27 66 4325403 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 15894960 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 15894960 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 15894960 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22840 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14456 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14456 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14027	75.6% Very good	Read 519 Write 170 Mixed 222 66% 304 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 18.7 123% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 45.8 77% 149 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 930GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 57865328 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4534 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 50147211 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12294 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2029 (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 100 100 140 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 48 48 105465 (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 81149112097075 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17358900493 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19899489226	101% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 166 Mixed 165 130% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.32 111% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 101% 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 (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.5% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 20.6 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 22.7 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 123%

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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	4,552x
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	891x
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 $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 $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 $40	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