Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.3% 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	1,273% 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	40GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 40GB 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.

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	32.7 GB free of 40 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit 种颜色
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	May 13 '17 at 11:27
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	CHN-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing above expectations (84^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 144 2-Core 289 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 758 79% 635 Pts	64-Core 789 49% 789 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 117 Parallax 104 92% 112 fps	MRender 97.7 Gravity 105 Splatting 84.7 77% 95.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 237GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3158 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 824 (B1) Unknown 99 99 40 (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 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 118 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12960960347	95.8% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 495 Mixed 504 112% 503 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 24.9 142% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 37.5 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 24.9 35% 61.8 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 124%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 177GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	1,273% Outstanding	Read 8,313 Write 8,988 Mixed 9,421 1,997% 8,907 MB/s	4K Read 315 4K Write 305 4K Mixed 373 1,116% 331 MB/s	DQ Read 923 DQ Write 802 DQ Mixed 262 360% 662 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 1,273% Great: 243%
WD Re 2TB (2012)-$29 5,893 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01K03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 165 162 6708 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3146 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5827 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1637 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 200 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2945 (C2) HDA temperature 122 99 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	90.3% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 155 Mixed 152 117% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 3.06 4K Mixed 0.57 154% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK32GX4M2B3200C16 CMK16GX4M4B3000C15 CMK32GX4M2B3200C16 CMK16GX4M4B3000C15 40GB 2933, 2933, 2933, 2933 MHz 16384, 4096, 16384, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	95.1% Outstanding	MC Read 33.8 MC Write 37.1 MC Mixed 29.3 95% 33.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.4 SC Write 41.5 SC Mixed 28.7 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 56.3 71% 56.3 ns

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Gaming 86%

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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	4,555x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	991x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	441x
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	346x
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: 69% - Good

Total price: $958

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