Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 111% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 90.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	120% 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	59.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '17 at 10:42
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing below expectations (39^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)	90.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 138 2-Core 247 91% 160 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 785 75% 621 Pts	64-Core 787 49% 787 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 191 Parallax 179 129% 176 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 182 Splatting 127 118% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme II 120GB-$130 2,462 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 11381 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2423 (A6) Unknown 100 100 80 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 302 (A9) Unknown 100 100 208 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 185 (AE) Unknown 100 100 140 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 117 502512025627 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1552 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 23598 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10635 (F2) Unknown 253 253 17112 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	59.3% Above average	Read 454 Write 246 Mixed 311 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 38.3 4K Mixed 17.3 77% 26.1 MB/s	DQ Read 74.2 DQ Write 58.8 DQ Mixed 32.6 34% 55.2 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 101%
Corsair Force GT 60GB 1,562 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3374655 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 21234318328306 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1324 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 135 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 55 47248244769 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3374655 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3374655 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3374655 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5391 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4913 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4913 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8622	45.4% Average	Read 453 Write 81.6 Mixed 141 48% 225 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 37.4 4K Mixed 13.6 69% 23.9 MB/s	DQ Read 54.2 DQ Write 32.8 DQ Mixed 18.3 20% 35.1 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 69%
Samsung HN-M101MBB 1TB-$45 3,466 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 23GB free Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 377 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3452 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11124 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17447 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 97 97 3369 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5645 (B5) Unknown 100 100 16541421 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6886 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 44 253403725851 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1174 (DF) Load/unload retry count 97 97 3369 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 39 39 621971	37.2% Below average	Read 61.6 Write 67.8 Mixed 70.9 50% 66.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.22 61% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 59%
TS-RDF5 SD Transcend 32GB 1,099 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 26GB free, PID 4000 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	18.9% Very poor	Read 43 Write 24.7 Mixed 33.5 41% 33.7 MB/s	4K Read 6 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 1.43 136% 3.11 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 119 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 37.8 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 31.8 105% 36.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 42.8 SC Mixed 31 86% 30.1 GB/s	Latency 51.2 78% 51.2 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

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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 $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: 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 $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