Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 107% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	111% 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	62.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 24 '17 at 21:54
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 142 2-Core 279 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 507 8-Core 785 80% 646 Pts	64-Core 786 49% 786 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 148 Reflection 151 Parallax 131 121% 143 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 140 Splatting 110 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSNH128GCST 128GB 1,729 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 48GB free Firmware: HTGAN101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4165 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3237 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 191 191 2237690561637 (AE) Unknown 195 195 2220499215214 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 432 (C2) HDA temperature 71 51 210453987357 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 151394 (F2) Unknown 100 100 139709 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	109% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 477 Mixed 497 111% 497 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 38.9 149% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 205 184% 276 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 100%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 18GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5683392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 128367982544455 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 748 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 314 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 45 55837523999 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 55837523999 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5683392 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5683392 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5683392 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 38654705665 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2861 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7144 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7144 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7472 (F4) Unknown 99 99 6488121	65.3% Good	Read 377 Write 188 Mixed 212 57% 259 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 89.4 4K Mixed 17.2 109% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 156 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 53.5 69% 123 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 85%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 9GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 922 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 419 (B1) Unknown 96 96 18 (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 61 48 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 34 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4978759479	62.5% Good	Read 362 Write 221 Mixed 215 59% 266 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 53.9 4K Mixed 16.2 107% 36 MB/s	DQ Read 39.7 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 16.2 31% 60 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 114%
Seagate Expansion Desk 2TB 12,762 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1.5TB free Firmware: 9401 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 184 Mixed 176 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.22 85% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 104%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 73 (03) Spinup time 131 131 17198874914 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1348 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2404 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 858 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1358 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1358 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 180389478431 (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 200 200 0	85.3% Excellent	Read 142 Write 155 Mixed 145 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.15 66% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Group Inc. TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GB 22,274 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	MC Read 33.2 MC Write 34.4 MC Mixed 25.4 89% 31 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 35.9 SC Mixed 27.7 76% 26.6 GB/s	Latency 54.1 74% 54.1 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 103%

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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	4,554x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	440x
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	345x
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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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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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