Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 92.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.1% 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	65.2% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 24 '17 at 09:55
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	20%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 144 2-Core 288 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 490 8-Core 812 79% 651 Pts	64-Core 811 50% 811 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B7) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 353.6 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 115 Parallax 102 91% 109 fps	MRender 94.9 Gravity 100 Splatting 87.2 76% 94 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1085 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 113 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 77 (64) Unknown 100 100 316416 (65) Unknown 100 100 95136 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 97 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1152 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 100 133145100314 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1085 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 1085 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 564 (EA) Unknown 100 100 299 (F1) Unknown 100 100 463 (F2) Unknown 100 100 967 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 1085	65.2% Good	Read 477 Write 255 Mixed 259 73% 330 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 50.1 4K Mixed 5.72 82% 29.3 MB/s	DQ Read 244 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 15.2 54% 122 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 130737608 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1334 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1222451 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1250 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 514 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 70 420806681 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6351 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 42949672985 (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 -87445534146441 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1025631803 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1697344992	98.6% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 175 Mixed 178 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.35 102% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 113%
Samsun HD501LJ 500GB 114 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 162GB free Firmware: CR10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7232 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4298 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11346 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2562 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 69 23 (C2) HDA temperature 169 145 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 86918 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 14	36.8% Below average	Read 62.3 Write 65.9 Mixed 74.5 51% 67.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.28 73% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$57 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.5% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 20.9 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 23.2 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 107%

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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	4,553x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	440x
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	345x
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