Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 126% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 110% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 93.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	134% 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.
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 IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	Dec 06 '17 at 05:05
Run Duration	588 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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-$242 712,312 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 (97^th percentile)	93.2% Outstanding	Memory 98.1 1-Core 143 2-Core 281 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 476 8-Core 783 77% 629 Pts	64-Core 784 48% 784 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.2% 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 6796) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 189 Reflection 208 Parallax 185 154% 194 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 185 Splatting 128 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 588GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3675 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 376 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 67 58 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 34746205275
Poor: 80% Great: 133%
Corsair Force GT 480GB-$299 252 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 193GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 18317683 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -71459665865076 (0C) Power cycle count 87 87 14038 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 533 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 65535 (C2) HDA temperature 31 71 68724129823 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18317683 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18317683 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18317683 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11539 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16160 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16160 (F2) Unknown 0 0 25235	66.8% Good	Read 520 Write 238 Mixed 307 78% 355 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 19.9 4K Mixed 18.8 81% 23.1 MB/s	DQ Read 228 DQ Write 89.3 DQ Mixed 58.1 70% 125 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 67%
Corsair Performance Pro 256GB-$348 318 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 36GB free Firmware: 1.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^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 2491 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4503 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 558	100% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 419 Mixed 452 102% 458 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 73.7 4K Mixed 38.8 137% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 91.5 118% 213 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 98%
WD WD2500KS-00MJB0 1TB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 771GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 119 119 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1071 (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 98 98 960 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 661 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 13556 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 206159675419 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 177 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7305095764 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6517647922 (FE) Unknown 100 100 2	70.3% Very good	Read 120 Write 125 Mixed 122 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.2 79% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 88%
WD WD2500KS-00MJB0 250GB-$78 8,440 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 126GB free Firmware: 02.01C03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 27994 (03) Spinup time 190 182 5475 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13330 (05) Reallocated sector count 197 197 17 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16519 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 9285 (BE) vendor-specific 61 42 39 (C2) HDA temperature 111 92 39 (C4) Reallocation count 197 197 3 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 199 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 199 199 59 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 191 355 (C8) Write error rate 199 199 35	2.92% Terrible	Read 7.6 Write 2.22 Mixed 3.21 3% 4.35 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 0.62 4K Mixed 0.43 81% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 2.92% Great: 35%
WD WD1500AHFD-00RAR5 150GB 1,105 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 47GB free Firmware: 21.07QR5 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 160 0 (03) Spinup time 163 162 4850 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11258 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15550 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8424 (C2) HDA temperature 107 95 40 (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 200 253 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	41.6% Average	Read 77.7 Write 67.1 Mixed 71.1 54% 71.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.43 107% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 47%
WD My Book 1230 4TB 14,665 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2.5TB free, PID 1230 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Read 129 Write 134 Mixed 103 156% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.37 73% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 14% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3866 C18 2x8GB 1,141 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3867 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	MC Read 37.7 MC Write 45.8 MC Mixed 31.4 109% 38.3 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 47.5 SC Mixed 34.4 94% 33 GB/s	Latency 45.5 88% 45.5 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 118%

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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 $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,186x
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	651x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	446x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,108

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