Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	236% 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	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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170509
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 19 '17 at 17:07
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700-$195 144,475 User benchmarks, average bench 69% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	75.1% Very good	Memory 75.1 1-Core 99.8 2-Core 202 70% 126 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 804 71% 603 Pts	64-Core 1115 69% 1115 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% MSI(1462 3080) ≥ 4GB Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.4.4 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	13.7% Very poor	Lighting 16.1 Reflection 14.7 Parallax 24.8 13% 18.5 fps	MRender 12.5 Gravity 17.4 Splatting 22.6 15% 17.5 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 13.7% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 363GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th 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 7165 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1920 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 81 (AE) Unknown 100 100 118 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 53 201864511530 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 42853931571 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1346215415 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1335182630	93.1% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 489 Mixed 484 110% 493 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 78.1 4K Mixed 30.5 121% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 50.1 61% 106 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 107%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	236% Outstanding	Read 2,946 Write 1,156 Mixed 1,402 401% 1,835 MB/s	4K Read 49.1 4K Write 84.5 4K Mixed 23.7 150% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 50.9 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 23 39% 73.6 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 236% Great: 236%
Corsair Force 3 240GB-$232 6,637 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 32GB free Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -39195871531796 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4229 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 230 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7330 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6928 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6928 (F2) Unknown 0 0 24587	42.5% Average	Read 165 Write 165 Mixed 146 36% 159 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 66.8 4K Mixed 10.5 84% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 21.5 DQ Write 66.8 DQ Mixed 10.4 18% 32.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 534GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 114429792 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9264 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2745904 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10710 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3916 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 51 589037603 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 181 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33993 (C2) HDA temperature 35 49 73014444067 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -135982959556035 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6072468990776 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7624195597527	111% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 195 Mixed 172 140% 187 MB/s	4K Read 1.16 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.31 110% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 112%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 181GB free Firmware: 12.01C02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 17 (03) Spinup time 172 167 6383 (04) Start/Stop count 81 81 19080 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22200 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 90 90 10088 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 435 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19080 (C2) HDA temperature 107 84 43 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	41.9% Average	Read 76.7 Write 68.8 Mixed 76.2 56% 73.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.34 102% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$161 35,811 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2666 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	MC Read 37.1 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 28.8 93% 32.5 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 35.1 SC Mixed 26 78% 27.4 GB/s	Latency 90.2 44% 90.2 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 110%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO - $227

CPU
Ryzen 7 1800XAMD $60Bench 72%, 30,050 samples	277x
Ryzen 7 1700XAMD $225Bench 71%, 66,470 samples	206x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	191x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	193x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	155x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	115x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	88x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	60x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	44x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $869

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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