Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 93.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	106% 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	201% 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.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170823
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 12:31
Run Duration	416 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	33%

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PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	93.6% Outstanding	Memory 82.1 1-Core 150 2-Core 299 95% 177 Pts	4-Core 564 8-Core 886 89% 724 Pts	64-Core 1,162 72% 1,162 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	106% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 149 Parallax 121 112% 136 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 134 Splatting 110 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	201% Outstanding	Read 2,002 Write 914 Mixed 866 276% 1,261 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 94.4 4K Mixed 39.6 147% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 478 DQ Write 414 DQ Mixed 110 174% 334 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 201% Great: 185%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 32GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3769548 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 12541304510088 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2178 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 576 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 19 46 42952687635 (C2) HDA temperature 19 46 42952687635 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3769548 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3769548 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3769548 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 21474836481 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11554 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9939 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9939 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11811 (F4) Unknown 98 98 196673619	60.8% Good	Read 509 Write 123 Mixed 139 55% 257 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 75.2 4K Mixed 16.1 98% 38.6 MB/s	DQ Read 84.6 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 26.4 40% 75.3 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 73%
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 7GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8196 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2946 (AA) Unknown 100 100 16 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 39 (AE) Unknown 100 100 537 (B5) Unknown 100 100 412318171211 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2127 (C2) HDA temperature 81 43 249103843347 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4294967295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	81.6% Excellent	Read 501 Write 267 Mixed 351 82% 373 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 71.6 4K Mixed 28.2 112% 41.7 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 52.5 92% 183 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 91%
Seagate M3 Portable 4TB 5,513 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 673GB free Firmware: 9300 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	41.9% Average	Read 72.3 Write 72.5 Mixed 49.1 48% 64.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 4.42 4K Mixed 0.45 158% 1.84 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 65%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 109GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 58 19 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7960 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12566 (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 97 97 17040 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6254 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 97 1 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 25 25 75 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 126 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 61 370540566 (C2) HDA temperature 78 56 370540566 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 72416 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	62.8% Good	Read 99.6 Write 119 Mixed 108 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.44 112% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 62%
WD Blue 500GB (2007)-$80 10,362 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 15GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 157 151 5116 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7807 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20439 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6726 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1185 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6726 (C2) HDA temperature 121 97 26 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	30.1% Below average	Read 52.1 Write 52.6 Mixed 52.5 40% 52.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.3 86% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 30.1% Great: 51%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 14GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 222 165 3883 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10171 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14994 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4733 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 438 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 136 136 192591 (C2) HDA temperature 128 109 22 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	33.5% Below average	Read 62.7 Write 53.8 Mixed 57.1 44% 57.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.23 78% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33.5% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 83471656 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10296 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 24031111 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10886 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3588 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 38655295497 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 57 4699193368 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 444 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 50902 (C2) HDA temperature 24 43 -140737488355304 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 90 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 104835856730260 (F1) Unknown 100 253 114043594233280 (F2) Unknown 100 253 97690671975968	53.4% Above average	Read 93.5 Write 92.7 Mixed 78.6 66% 88.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 0.76 4K Mixed 0.35 89% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 114%
Samsung HD400LJ 400GB-$85 1,439 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 1GB free Firmware: ZZ100-15 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7936 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 21630 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 22 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20091 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7597 (BE) vendor-specific 74 46 26 (C2) HDA temperature 160 76 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 14218103 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 22 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	21.8% Poor	Read 37.7 Write 38.6 Mixed 37.9 29% 38.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.12 4K Mixed 0.07 13% 0.08 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.8% Great: 41%
WD My Passport Essential USB 3.0 500GB 2,842 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 5GB free, PID 0730 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	16.4% Very poor	Read 35.7 Write 35 Mixed 12.7 33% 27.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.11 44% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 16.4% Great: 32%
WD 10EADS External 1TB 3,369 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 4GB free, PID 1003 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	19.2% Very poor	Read 38.3 Write 36.4 Mixed 16.1 37% 30.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.31 74% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 19.2% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$171 37,802 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.2% Good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 24 MC Mixed 18.3 64% 22.2 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 15.5 43% 15.2 GB/s	Latency 76.7 52% 76.7 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 104%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO - $250

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,386x
Core i9-9900KIntel $410Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	298x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	686x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	336x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	229x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	199x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	183x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	177x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	145x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	115x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $1,129

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 $15	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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