Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 92.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.7% 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	81.7% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 08 '17 at 10:00
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^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)	92.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 740 75% 606 Pts	64-Core 743 46% 743 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4993) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.7% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 110 Parallax 109 85% 108 fps	MRender 91.3 Gravity 96.4 Splatting 78.4 72% 88.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 12374177 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 98371930960415 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4823 (0D) Soft read error rate 47 47 48687761641633 (64) Unknown 0 0 35760 (AA) Unknown 0 0 3584 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 975 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 23 52 34363146263 (C2) HDA temperature 23 52 34363146263 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12374177 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 106 106 -52085068398592 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12374177 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12374177 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 0 (E8) Unknown 0 0 14 (E9) Unknown 0 0 28186 (EA) Unknown 0 0 21926 (F1) Unknown 0 0 21926 (F2) Unknown 0 0 27258	81.7% Excellent	Read 505 Write 202 Mixed 228 68% 312 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 18.3 141% 57.9 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 47.2 77% 149 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 73%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 719GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 163093984 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 490 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5282754 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1074 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 510 (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 68 420544537 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2763 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 38654705689 (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 90026809493612 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3918558622 (F2) Unknown 100 253 394949627085	108% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 190 Mixed 142 129% 173 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 5.37 4K Mixed 1.03 254% 2.46 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 111%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 332GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 37845688 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3191 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 30084382 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3181 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 524296 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 75 62 420544537 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1253 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19690 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 34359738393 (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 15075335221145 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23684503804 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22076639862	90.4% Outstanding	Read 158 Write 156 Mixed 147 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 5.38 4K Mixed 1.06 255% 2.45 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 37.6 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 31.9 103% 36.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.5 SC Write 43.6 SC Mixed 31.7 93% 32.6 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 104%

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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	4,546x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	842x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
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	342x
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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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