Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 102% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	131% 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	96.8% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	26.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161108
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '17 at 00:55
Run Duration	227 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing as expected (60^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, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 90.3 1-Core 144 2-Core 277 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 766 77% 626 Pts	64-Core 759 47% 759 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374D) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 210 Parallax 180 148% 190 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 178 Splatting 128 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 89GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13947 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2796 (B1) Unknown 86 86 160 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 58 46 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1329 (F1) Unknown 99 99 51949060652	95.9% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 301 Mixed 356 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 82.4 4K Mixed 28.4 150% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 81.1 117% 221 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1333 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 259 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 58 54 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 105 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11524380203	96.8% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 345 Mixed 343 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 45 4K Write 68.2 4K Mixed 41.4 157% 51.5 MB/s	DQ Read 267 DQ Write 67.3 DQ Mixed 99.2 91% 145 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 179238848 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3582 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 73157338576 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 14010 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2481 (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 64 51 56440586276 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1590 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 32 32 137878 (C2) HDA temperature 36 49 -140737488355292 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 10 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -86474871528523 (F1) Unknown 100 253 58004015236 (F2) Unknown 100 253 76471649537	103% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 167 Mixed 167 132% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.3 82% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 113%
Seagate Expansion 2TB 49,966 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2TB free Firmware: 9300 Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	23.4% Poor	Read 40.4 Write 39.8 Mixed 35.4 29% 38.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 3.97 4K Mixed 0.52 178% 1.87 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 23.4% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 186758368 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 536 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 8612273303 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3370 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 513 (B7) Unknown 86 86 14 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 65535 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 63 51 622985253 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 238 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 47008 (C2) HDA temperature 37 49 60129542181 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 159033 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -47004122085532 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25312925067 (F2) Unknown 100 253 137321130512	102% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 157 Mixed 154 127% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.16 66% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 113%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 770GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 169 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2963 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7404 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2152 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 513 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2449 (C2) HDA temperature 103 97 40 (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 200 200 108 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	96.2% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 157 Mixed 160 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 1.34 4K Write 2.66 4K Mixed 0.37 146% 1.46 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 4000 C18 4x8GB 249 User benchmarks, average bench 111% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.5% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 22.8 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 25.7 SC Mixed 21.2 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 140%

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Gaming 105%

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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 $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