Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 100% UFO	Desktop 111% UFO	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 106%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	90.1% 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	285% 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 IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 23 '17 at 13:10
Run Duration	233 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Memory 97.7 1-Core 165 2-Core 332 108% 199 Pts	4-Core 654 8-Core 659 88% 656 Pts	64-Core 657 41% 657 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 92%

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: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 119 Parallax 97.7 93% 110 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 216GB free Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	227% Outstanding	Read 1,534 Write 1,086 Mixed 1,127 277% 1,249 MB/s	4K Read 61.5 4K Write 156 4K Mixed 49.5 239% 89.1 MB/s	DQ Read 744 DQ Write 526 DQ Mixed 265 298% 512 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 227% Great: 236%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	285% Outstanding	Read 2,880 Write 1,204 Mixed 1,378 398% 1,821 MB/s	4K Read 62.1 4K Write 161 4K Mixed 45.1 237% 89.3 MB/s	DQ Read 693 DQ Write 485 DQ Mixed 238 273% 472 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 285% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 89GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3347 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1034 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 65 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2484172082	120% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 416 Mixed 419 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 47.2 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 50.4 192% 67.9 MB/s	DQ Read 387 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 110 144% 262 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 124%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$61 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 166 4275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 24 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 54 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 23 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 173 (C2) HDA temperature 119 116 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	77.5% Very good	Read 137 Write 133 Mixed 128 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.25 107% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 84%
Seagate Expansion 2TB 49,966 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 605GB free Firmware: 0502 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	53.7% Above average	Read 83.5 Write 104 Mixed 98.8 72% 95.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.31 86% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 67%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 362GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 166 4000 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 967 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3407 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 956 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 124 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17488 (C2) HDA temperature 119 109 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	74.9% Very good	Read 142 Write 119 Mixed 126 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.17 88% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 84%
Seagate ST3160812AS 160GB-$47 10,399 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 148GB free Firmware: 3.ADH Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 78 116502682 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2902 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 385226903 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13252 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2779 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 521994270 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 12884901918 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 69 46 109064109 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	40.2% Average	Read 70.3 Write 69.6 Mixed 66.7 52% 68.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.41 91% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 40.2% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 1,022 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 41.3 MC Write 42.6 MC Mixed 34.5 113% 39.5 GB/s	SC Read 24.8 SC Write 45.3 SC Mixed 33.1 98% 34.4 GB/s	Latency 47.4 84% 47.4 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 148%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,190x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	652x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	447x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $1,081

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 $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