Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 98.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.5% 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 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 19 '17 at 18:17
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 148 2-Core 295 99% 180 Pts	4-Core 586 8-Core 562 77% 574 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E347) CLim: 1420 MHz, MLim: 2200 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.5.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Lighting 76.8 Reflection 73.6 Parallax 100 63% 83.4 fps	MRender 74.7 Gravity 73.1 Splatting 61.2 56% 69.7 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 76GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7836 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2116 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 44 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 635 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1978436685	105% Outstanding	Read 465 Write 329 Mixed 362 86% 386 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 91.2 4K Mixed 46.3 175% 60.7 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 116 134% 232 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16125303 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 83717502542683 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2628 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1528 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 43 51542425626 (C2) HDA temperature 26 43 51542425626 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16125303 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16125303 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16125303 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 93 93 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25925 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9535 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9535 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10200 (F4) Unknown 93 93 15401195	74.5% Very good	Read 423 Write 178 Mixed 188 58% 263 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 23.7 127% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 57.4 84% 156 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 73%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 2TB 7,767 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 627GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	66.6% Good	Read 118 Write 115 Mixed 116 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.27 75% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 123%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB-$408 6,794 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 37.5 MC Write 40.5 MC Mixed 33.8 106% 37.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.2 SC Write 40.1 SC Mixed 31.6 89% 31.3 GB/s	Latency 52.5 76% 52.5 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 115%

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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	4,554x
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	990x
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	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 $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