Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 119% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 107% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 86.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	139% 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	114% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 19 '17 at 14:00
Run Duration	305 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Memory 84.2 1-Core 141 2-Core 264 90% 163 Pts	4-Core 475 8-Core 805 78% 640 Pts	64-Core 808 50% 808 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E4) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	139% Outstanding	Lighting 197 Reflection 218 Parallax 212 160% 209 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 193 Splatting 134 125% 155 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$42 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 159GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9108 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1218 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 64 60 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 72 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4829156774	87.9% Excellent	Read 490 Write 264 Mixed 276 76% 343 MB/s	4K Read 40.6 4K Write 60.5 4K Mixed 30.8 133% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 75.6 109% 207 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 114%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 158GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 17 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 18 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 63 61 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 272993938	114% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 403 Mixed 415 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 43.8 4K Write 90.5 4K Mixed 47.6 175% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 116 145% 258 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$42 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 108GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3965 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 412 (B1) Unknown 98 98 7 (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 64 56 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3459573239	86.9% Excellent	Read 492 Write 266 Mixed 278 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 59.5 4K Mixed 29.5 130% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 70.2 106% 205 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 114%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 376GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 169 1941 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1955 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6773 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 785 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 229 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1725 (C2) HDA temperature 110 104 33 (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	68.1% Good	Read 137 Write 99.9 Mixed 148 98% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.25 86% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 237GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 48435920 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10304 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 56 236251184369 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24966 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2766 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 196613 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 52 571998242 (C2) HDA temperature 34 48 68719476770 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 13 48435920 (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 -33324651216096 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4259090762 (F2) Unknown 100 253 887661731	63.1% Good	Read 118 Write 102 Mixed 95.7 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.4 99% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 68%
ST1000DM 003-1CH162 1TB 61 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 881GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	44.4% Average	Read 84.7 Write 118 Mixed 91.6 131% 98.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.32 83% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 73%
ST2000DM 001-9YN164 2TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 288GB free, PID b159 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	17.3% Very poor	Read 37.2 Write 38.1 Mixed 12.4 35% 29.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.27 51% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 17.3% Great: 17%
ASMT 2105 1TB 1,332 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 141GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	66% Good	Read 168 Write 161 Mixed 119 188% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.3 82% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 79%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Avexir DDR4-2400 CL16 8GB 4x8GB 213 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.1% Very good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 22.9 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 22.4 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 73.1 55% 73.1 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 117%

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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 $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,186x
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	651x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	446x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,108

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	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