Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 90.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	92.5% 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	182% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 21 '17 at 10:44
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 (98^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	Memory 91.5 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 91% 165 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 748 76% 617 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 122 Parallax 103 96% 114 fps	MRender 99.3 Gravity 106 Splatting 106 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 376GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 976 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 645 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2470390955
Poor: 77% Great: 123%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	182% Outstanding	Read 2,269 Write 238 Mixed 531 216% 1,013 MB/s	4K Read 60.1 4K Write 91.8 4K Mixed 49.2 203% 67.1 MB/s	DQ Read 556 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 141 157% 278 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 182% Great: 254%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 CMK16GX4M2A2400C14 CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 CMK16GX4M2A2400C14 32GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.7 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 25 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 96%

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

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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	4,551x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	596x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	890x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	439x
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	344x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 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 $15	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