Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.1% 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	221% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170922
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 21 '17 at 20:13
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700-$195 144,475 User benchmarks, average bench 69% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 110 2-Core 219 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 881 78% 661 Pts	64-Core 1,222 76% 1,222 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1652 MHz, MLim: 950 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.10.1 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Lighting 112 Reflection 93.5 Parallax 185 92% 130 fps	MRender 88 Gravity 135 Splatting 132 99% 118 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 421GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1166 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 28 (B1) Unknown 100 99 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 68 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 173230634	98.6% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 412 Mixed 417 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 83.4 4K Mixed 25.3 144% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 24.1 78% 171 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 314GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13810 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 631 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 70 42 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 78 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13193042320	97.1% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 416 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 82.8 4K Mixed 40.3 160% 55.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38.8 DQ Write 75.6 DQ Mixed 22.6 27% 45.7 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 172GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	221% Outstanding	Read 2,183 Write 1,251 Mixed 1,190 339% 1,541 MB/s	4K Read 48 4K Write 88.9 4K Mixed 29.6 158% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 299 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 22.5 78% 174 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 221% Great: 236%
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 56GB free Firmware: 2.22 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 106 106 13999732 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 15685220607403 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3901 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1030 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13999732 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13999732 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13999732 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14009 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7883 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7883 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5833	35.1% Below average	Read 169 Write 57.4 Mixed 86.4 23% 104 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 59.2 4K Mixed 9.23 77% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 76.9 DQ Write 58.2 DQ Mixed 9.24 23% 48.1 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 35.1% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$112 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 65 78180534 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1177 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2070762 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 73010149065871 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 28 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 64 605749283 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1080 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2908 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 94489280547 (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 78288663871609 (F1) Unknown 100 253 38859845 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39320689	90.8% Outstanding	Read 154 Write 163 Mixed 114 107% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.28 85% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Flare X DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB-$73 54,616 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 3600 MHz clocked @ 1800 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	MC Read 50.8 MC Write 36.8 MC Mixed 36.6 118% 41.4 GB/s	SC Read 27 SC Write 49.1 SC Mixed 35.3 106% 37.1 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 129%

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Gaming 92%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 91%

Nuclear submarine

Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO - $227

CPU
Ryzen 7 1800XAMD $60Bench 72%, 30,050 samples	277x
Ryzen 7 1700XAMD $211Bench 71%, 66,470 samples	206x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	191x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	193x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	156x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	116x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	88x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	60x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	45x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $860

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16