Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.8% 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	118% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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 IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	57 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Mar 16 '17 at 11:10
Run Duration	248 Seconds
Run User	QAT-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 90.3 1-Core 146 2-Core 293 96% 177 Pts	4-Core 534 8-Core 812 83% 673 Pts	64-Core 813 50% 813 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 2992) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 116 Parallax 115 87% 113 fps	MRender 88 Gravity 100 Splatting 92.8 77% 93.7 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 960GB-$489 164 User benchmarks, average bench 143% 753GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C5005T5 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	118% Outstanding	Read 791 Write 780 Mixed 770 174% 780 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 91.7 4K Mixed 18.4 124% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 35.8 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 16.9 28% 51.3 MB/s
Poor: 102% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 172%
Kingston HyperX 3K 480GB-$256 1,827 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 260GB free Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 4895570 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 128599910802028 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 785 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 115 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 45 73017393183 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 73017393183 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4895570 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4895570 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4895570 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 47173 (EA) Unknown 0 0 21885 (F1) Unknown 0 0 21885 (F2) Unknown 0 0 26431	65.7% Good	Read 517 Write 244 Mixed 295 77% 352 MB/s	4K Read 28.7 4K Write 24.1 4K Mixed 18.5 80% 23.8 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 49.4 DQ Mixed 13.3 41% 95 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 69%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 96 159356254 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 10067 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 112 (07) Seek error rate 57 54 38659052574 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22407 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 784 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 86 86 14 (BC) Unknown 100 71 326422822994 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 50 639762470 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 169 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15321 (C2) HDA temperature 38 50 77309411366 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 125099512443892 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7411566045 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1860324203	75.3% Very good	Read 110 Write 151 Mixed 112 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 5.54 4K Mixed 0.54 192% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 215839104 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1753 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1710743 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20803 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 744 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 107375820825 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 54 622723109 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 178 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2998 (C2) HDA temperature 37 46 77309411365 (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 -126147484439645 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13688852758 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2107831301	72.7% Very good	Read 112 Write 140 Mixed 128 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 5.33 4K Mixed 0.84 208% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 153135176 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8607 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 59 38675675157 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24789 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 793 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 90 128851050528 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 59 572456994 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 568 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16361 (C2) HDA temperature 34 41 73014444066 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 16 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 16 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -26912265068309 (F1) Unknown 100 253 52672271010 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13718056046	57.2% Above average	Read 78.1 Write 120 Mixed 87.7 72% 95.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 5.47 4K Mixed 0.72 198% 2.2 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 190738704 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10865 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 57 279204132521 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21351 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 745 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 68722294829 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 53 622854180 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 551 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30292 (C2) HDA temperature 36 47 73014444068 (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 -90679644509636 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34112596846 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19046414790	76% Very good	Read 114 Write 150 Mixed 116 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 5.26 4K Mixed 0.57 177% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 108067528 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7613 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 57 8663292006 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21418 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 744 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 71 71 29 (BC) Unknown 100 97 38657589294 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 65 58 589299747 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 537 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21811 (C2) HDA temperature 35 42 73014444067 (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 97027606198298 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42657722472 (F2) Unknown 100 253 33628371054	69.9% Good	Read 110 Write 132 Mixed 121 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 5.49 4K Mixed 0.79 219% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 94%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x16GB 3,127 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	81.4% Excellent	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 31 MC Mixed 26.1 82% 28.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 33.1 SC Mixed 25.6 74% 26 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 130%

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Gaming 105%

UFO

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 90%

Aircraft carrier

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,216x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	751x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	654x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	449x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	221x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	170x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $1,083

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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16