Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% 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 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 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	105% 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	65.9% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	27.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	21.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 09 '17 at 18:33
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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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
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 91.7 1-Core 148 2-Core 291 97% 177 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 708 74% 593 Pts	64-Core 723 45% 723 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 154 Parallax 129 111% 139 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 132 Splatting 112 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD8SN8U1T001122 1TB 1,266 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 912GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5393 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 549 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1441806 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 45 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1433 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 36 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 66 283469086755 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 17179869188 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 143 (EA) Unknown 100 100 291 (F1) Unknown 253 253 252 (F2) Unknown 253 253 557 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	94.4% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 471 Mixed 410 103% 464 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 66.1 4K Mixed 26.3 111% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 258 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 54 99% 195 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 101%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 346GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6874 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 581 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 64 64 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19585667146	65.9% Good	Read 360 Write 292 Mixed 287 70% 313 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 55.2 4K Mixed 20.3 90% 32.8 MB/s	DQ Read 190 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 63.1 70% 120 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 134%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$26 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 218GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 20 100 1044 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 640 (A6) Unknown 100 100 818 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 869 (A9) Unknown 100 100 43 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 848 (AE) Unknown 100 100 72 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 100 231928234020 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 28 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 187349 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11995 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1780	91.9% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 425 Mixed 456 104% 466 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 5.61 128% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 167 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 34.8 82% 167 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 86%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 313GB free Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 196 196 3158 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5609 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18124 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1590 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 129 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5479 (C2) HDA temperature 120 105 30 (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	118% Outstanding	Read 226 Write 183 Mixed 156 141% 189 MB/s	4K Read 1.73 4K Write 4.95 4K Mixed 0.43 211% 2.37 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 117%
Seagate ST3750640AS 750GB-$60 7,916 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 38GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 67 127394915 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15508 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 737878788 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 30978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3947 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 48 638844966 (C2) HDA temperature 38 52 38654705702 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 66 59 159159086 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	25.6% Poor	Read 48.6 Write 40.3 Mixed 45.9 34% 45 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.33 77% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 716 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 24 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 21.7 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 64.7 62% 64.7 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 131%

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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	4,542x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	840x
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 $499Bench 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 $130Bench 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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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