Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 95.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.58% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	72.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

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Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	29 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Nov 21 '17 at 03:00
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Memory 95.1 1-Core 140 2-Core 281 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 557 8-Core 561 75% 559 Pts	64-Core 564 35% 564 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 21.20.16.4821 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.58% Terrible	Lighting 7.93 Reflection 11.8 Parallax 7.69 6% 9.16 fps	MRender 10.9 Gravity 6.8 Splatting 16.3 10% 11.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.58% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin ECO2 SMI 512GB-$80 1,273 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 484 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1243 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 100 (A3) Unknown 100 100 55 (A4) Unknown 100 100 59046 (A5) Unknown 100 100 92 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 160 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3158 (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 100 100 9 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 218704 (F2) Unknown 100 100 292642 (F5) Unknown 100 100 472368	72.9% Very good	Read 505 Write 226 Mixed 307 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 19.7 114% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 24.6 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 20.1 46% 89.8 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 97%
Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB-$52 41,501 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 698GB free Firmware: JE4OA50A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 79 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 174 100 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 688 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 589896 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1309 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 640 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 83 -25078147776233 (BC) Unknown 100 1 64435847859 (BE) vendor-specific 77 49 353828887 (BF) G-sense error rate 83 83 4599 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 524296 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9224 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 10 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	52.7% Above average	Read 95.1 Write 88.9 Mixed 85 67% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.19 49% 0.35 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 4x8GB-$165 7,179 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2667 MHz clocked @ 2747 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	96.6% Outstanding	MC Read 34.9 MC Write 36.9 MC Mixed 31.7 99% 34.5 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 36.4 SC Mixed 28.7 81% 28.5 GB/s	Latency 56.9 70% 56.9 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 118%

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Desktop 87%

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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	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	841x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	887x
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	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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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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 $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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