Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.2% 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	94.8% 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	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 (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150714
Uptime	20.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 10 '17 at 04:10
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$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 way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 96.6 1-Core 126 2-Core 239 88% 154 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 593 63% 505 Pts	64-Core 631 39% 631 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 115 Parallax 115 91% 114 fps	MRender 95.2 Gravity 102 Splatting 88.1 77% 95.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 256GB-$114 909 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 130GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^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 1572 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 79 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 17 (A3) Unknown 100 100 52 (A4) Unknown 100 100 48492 (A5) Unknown 100 100 104 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 49 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 7 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 12908 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 274290 (F2) Unknown 100 100 144226 (F5) Unknown 100 100 387936	94.8% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 284 Mixed 357 84% 382 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 35.6 149% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 59.2 103% 201 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 98%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 36GB free Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 9949644 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 127354370274568 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 79 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 40 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 37 64426934300 (C2) HDA temperature 28 37 64426934300 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9949644 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9949644 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9949644 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 111669149697 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16790 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6839 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6839 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3510 (F4) Unknown 96 96 8781958	72.6% Very good	Read 496 Write 135 Mixed 175 58% 269 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 19.1 136% 55.7 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 26.8 47% 90.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 73%
WD Se 2TB (2013)-$74 2,177 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 803GB free Firmware: 01.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 170 6383 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 478 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13577 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 73 (10) Unknown 9 191 164437715240 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 444 (C2) HDA temperature 117 103 33 (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	77.9% Very good	Read 141 Write 131 Mixed 117 97% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.51 4K Mixed 0.36 112% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 93%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$56 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	MC Read 32 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 33.3 101% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 43.3 SC Mixed 31.5 86% 30.1 GB/s	Latency 52 77% 52 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 107%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,552x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	596x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	891x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	439x
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	344x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 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 $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 $179	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