Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 94% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	112% 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	87.7% 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	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, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '17 at 16:38
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 94.1 1-Core 150 2-Core 274 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 516 8-Core 810 82% 662 Pts	64-Core 809 50% 809 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 152 Reflection 154 Parallax 133 124% 146 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 140 Splatting 109 98% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB-$199 9,250 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 98GB free (System drive) Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4890 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 914 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 51 (A8) Unknown 100 100 165 (A9) Unknown 100 100 973 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 55 (AE) Unknown 100 100 155 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 39 167504642072 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 339 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 28885 (F1) Unknown 253 253 18628 (F2) Unknown 253 253 14277 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	87.7% Excellent	Read 516 Write 471 Mixed 484 109% 490 MB/s	4K Read 30.8 4K Write 93.3 4K Mixed 19.1 120% 47.7 MB/s	DQ Read 36.2 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 63.4 52% 70.4 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 114%
WD Re 2TB (2012)-$29 5,893 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 563GB free Firmware: 01.01K02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 170 6400 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 646 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4020 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 616 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 594 (C2) HDA temperature 124 109 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	61.6% Good	Read 108 Write 106 Mixed 106 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.92 4K Mixed 0.62 154% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 90%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 321GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 81228872 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 43801476 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30441 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2489 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 133146017841 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437387290 (C2) HDA temperature 26 49 51539607578 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 24 81228872 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 174 56625	59.5% Above average	Read 107 Write 100 Mixed 92.5 75% 99.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.3 87% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 60%
Seagate ST3500830AS 500GB-$145 6,517 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 118GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 88 231848658 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2264 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 342920017 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9928 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2930 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 538116128 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 55834574880 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 67 48 71410650 (C5) Current pending sector count 1 1 4294967294 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 1 1 4294967294 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	39.1% Below average	Read 68.2 Write 67.8 Mixed 59.2 49% 65.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.33 77% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GB 686 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	MC Read 33.4 MC Write 34.4 MC Mixed 28.4 92% 32.1 GB/s	SC Read 20.5 SC Write 36 SC Mixed 28 80% 28.2 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 110%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,190x
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	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	652x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	447x

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 $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $1,081

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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