Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	83.5% 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	81.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	12 Days
Run Date	May 23 '17 at 20:04
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$127 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	78.5% Very good	Memory 88.2 1-Core 105 2-Core 211 77% 135 Pts	4-Core 395 8-Core 414 54% 405 Pts	64-Core 410 25% 410 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 108 Parallax 100 87% 105 fps	MRender 93.1 Gravity 98.4 Splatting 88.2 76% 93.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7501 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1689 (B1) Unknown 95 95 147 (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 68 54 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 160 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25062179954	81.5% Excellent	Read 502 Write 467 Mixed 489 109% 486 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 67.8 4K Mixed 19.3 101% 37.8 MB/s	DQ Read 28.4 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 20.4 30% 53.9 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 116%
Corsair Force LS 60GB-$57 3,190 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 20GB free Firmware: S8FM06.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4065 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1627 (A2) Unknown 100 100 68 (AA) Unknown 100 100 207 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 917525 (AE) Unknown 100 100 813 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 813 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 910 (F2) Unknown 100 100 826	50.5% Above average	Read 492 Write 98.8 Mixed 166 54% 252 MB/s	4K Read 18.7 4K Write 54.2 4K Mixed 9.33 69% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 134 DQ Write 91.6 DQ Mixed 28 44% 84.7 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 128101952 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1640 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 4361422035 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8084 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1601 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 66 54 588513314 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 71 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 51 51 99508 (C2) HDA temperature 34 46 68719476770 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 51745765987430 (F1) Unknown 100 253 85569541015 (F2) Unknown 100 253 21350304981	116% Outstanding	Read 219 Write 184 Mixed 167 142% 190 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.27 83% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3320418AS 320GB-$33 24,309 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 232GB free Firmware: HP35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 74328090 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8107 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 134549997 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10648 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3767 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1532454504 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 54 504561694 (C2) HDA temperature 30 46 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 33 74328090 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	54.8% Above average	Read 88.7 Write 102 Mixed 82.5 68% 91.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.41 102% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32% Below average	MC Read 10.3 MC Write 11.1 MC Mixed 8.8 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 11.2 SC Mixed 10.4 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 69.3 58% 69.3 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 32% Great: 86%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO - $190

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,155x
Core i5-4670KIntel $127Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	409x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	174x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	95x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	91x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	88x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	63x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	50x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $640

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