Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	97.2% 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	252% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	25 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '17 at 00:20
Run Duration	274 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	35%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 (89^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 126 2-Core 254 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 616 66% 526 Pts	64-Core 711 44% 711 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6284) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.2% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 145 Parallax 136 99% 134 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 130 Splatting 106 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 185GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	252% Outstanding	Read 2,517 Write 1,153 Mixed 1,349 367% 1,673 MB/s	4K Read 55.3 4K Write 155 4K Mixed 37.5 214% 82.7 MB/s	DQ Read 463 DQ Write 364 DQ Mixed 180 198% 336 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 252% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 122GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11599 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4002 (B1) Unknown 95 95 95 (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 44 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39184387492	110% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 410 Mixed 423 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 39.8 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 45.3 172% 62 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 106 124% 215 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 119GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1195 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 379 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 68 54 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6547115507	82.1% Excellent	Read 375 Write 331 Mixed 327 77% 344 MB/s	4K Read 36.7 4K Write 64.8 4K Mixed 32.9 132% 44.8 MB/s	DQ Read 210 DQ Write 92 DQ Mixed 22.3 51% 108 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 134%
Corsair Force 3 60GB 4,789 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 6GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 2598617 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 61967788172947 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5516 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 493 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2598617 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2598617 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2598617 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 85 85 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 32012 (EA) Unknown 0 0 106797 (F1) Unknown 0 0 106797 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5789	37.1% Below average	Read 199 Write 59.7 Mixed 92.6 26% 117 MB/s	4K Read 21.3 4K Write 54.1 4K Mixed 12.4 77% 29.3 MB/s	DQ Read 78.4 DQ Write 62.4 DQ Mixed 19 28% 53.3 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 37.1% Great: 52%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 176 8091 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7733 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9717 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5116 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 43 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 183 183 51895 (C2) HDA temperature 117 98 35 (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	73.5% Very good	Read 136 Write 120 Mixed 122 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.18 91% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 87%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 175 8091 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5643 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10314 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5109 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 38 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 151 151 149769 (C2) HDA temperature 118 98 34 (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	59.2% Above average	Read 107 Write 98.7 Mixed 79.5 71% 95.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.3 92% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 87%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$128 11,448 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 110GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 167 4383 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11597 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 16928 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7622 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11505 (C2) HDA temperature 115 93 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	56.8% Above average	Read 100 Write 97.8 Mixed 93 73% 97 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.49 117% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB 506 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 30.3 MC Mixed 24.8 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 18.7 SC Write 31.7 SC Mixed 24.7 72% 25 GB/s	Latency 61.6 65% 61.6 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 118%

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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	4,577x
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	472x

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