Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	136% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	202% 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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	3.9 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '17 at 02:22
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 below expectations (34^th percentile)	78.7% Very good	Memory 92.4 1-Core 111 2-Core 217 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 434 52% 400 Pts	64-Core 626 39% 626 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 210 Parallax 188 156% 197 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 191 Splatting 127 121% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 273GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	202% Outstanding	Read 1,748 Write 1,074 Mixed 1,137 292% 1,320 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 156 4K Mixed 33.6 196% 78.8 MB/s	DQ Read 49.5 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 33.5 74% 142 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 202% Great: 283%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2TB free Firmware: CC13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 65728854 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6034 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 48257280 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 33374 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 639 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 146031116323 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 55 521601051 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 238 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 6120 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 73014444059 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 20 65728854 (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 -23351737159693 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3766031580 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3706679622	71.4% Very good	Read 126 Write 123 Mixed 118 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.6 133% 1 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 85%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 883GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 166 166 6675 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 452 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1282 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 43 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1463 (C2) HDA temperature 126 119 24 (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	65.7% Good	Read 109 Write 119 Mixed 133 92% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.28 115% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 101%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$174 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 538GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8716 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11701 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27039 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 503 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 106 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11594 (C2) HDA temperature 122 102 30 (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 3 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 11	71.3% Very good	Read 149 Write 99.6 Mixed 125 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.39 107% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 2,543 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.4% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.5 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 29.6 SC Mixed 23.6 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 116%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,546x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	842x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
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	342x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 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 $279	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 $182	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) $30	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