Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.8% 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	117% 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 (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	22.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.5 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 28 '17 at 05:53
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	49%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 124 2-Core 226 86% 149 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 574 61% 487 Pts	64-Core 621 38% 621 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 116 Parallax 98.2 92% 109 fps	MRender 96.1 Gravity 99.7 Splatting 102 82% 99.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 166GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7180 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 137 (B1) Unknown 98 1 80 (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 71 61 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 168 (EB) Unknown 99 99 47 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26102758448	117% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 492 Mixed 510 114% 509 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 96.9 4K Mixed 45.8 164% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 319 DQ Mixed 166 172% 282 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 124%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 12GB free Firmware: 501ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3940553 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -56805237433394 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 873 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 203 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 82 42955046940 (C2) HDA temperature 28 82 42955046940 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3940553 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3940553 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3940553 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17733 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16441 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16441 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15304	62.2% Good	Read 371 Write 139 Mixed 209 52% 240 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 74.1 4K Mixed 17.9 108% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 179 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 49.6 68% 126 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 87%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 594GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 128 4191 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4748 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23404 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 863 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 123 123 231175 (C2) HDA temperature 114 100 29 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	55.1% Above average	Read 98.7 Write 93.1 Mixed 82.2 68% 91.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.46 4K Mixed 0.15 98% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M4C3466C16 4x8GB 733 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3467 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	MC Read 41.7 MC Write 44.5 MC Mixed 35.6 116% 40.6 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 45.5 SC Mixed 33.5 97% 33.9 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 142%

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

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