Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 96.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83% 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	220% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	8.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	12.4 Days
Run Date	Dec 15 '17 at 01:37
Run Duration	241 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.3% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 137 2-Core 280 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 566 8-Core 574 76% 570 Pts	64-Core 566 35% 566 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 112 Parallax 95 85% 104 fps	MRender 95 Gravity 93.4 Splatting 97.1 78% 95.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$155 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 189GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q 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 99 99 4947 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 795 (B1) Unknown 98 98 117 (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 71 51 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21830587916	87.8% Excellent	Read 378 Write 380 Mixed 378 85% 379 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 93.7 4K Mixed 23.6 131% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 67.3 99% 185 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	220% Outstanding	Read 2,120 Write 1,133 Mixed 1,132 322% 1,462 MB/s	4K Read 57.9 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 28.6 194% 72.6 MB/s	DQ Read 58.9 DQ Write 375 DQ Mixed 28 77% 154 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 220% Great: 236%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 40GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8890 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1400 (B1) Unknown 94 94 70 (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 72 51 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 111 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27747985153	90.8% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 336 Mixed 347 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 74.6 4K Mixed 21.6 130% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 21.6 87% 197 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 118%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 11GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 2525660 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 25709674247496 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2299 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 133 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (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 2525660 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2525660 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2525660 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8017 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11540 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11540 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7931	51% Above average	Read 191 Write 116 Mixed 146 34% 151 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 90.6 4K Mixed 13.9 105% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 10.7 43% 96.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 61%
Hitachi HDT721075SLA380 750GB 736 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 211GB free Firmware: ST4OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 1376296 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 116 (03) Spinup time 117 117 30088495464 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4935 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 33 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 34618 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2531 (C0) Power-off retract count 88 88 14840 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 14840 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 274878890013 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	45.8% Average	Read 72.9 Write 86.7 Mixed 78.9 60% 79.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.27 74% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 65%
WD My Book Essentials 1.5TB 1,072 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 98GB free, PID 1110 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	17.9% Very poor	Read 36 Write 34.1 Mixed 7.68 30% 25.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.13 63% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.9% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$65 6,723 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 34.1 104% 36.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.3 SC Write 37.6 SC Mixed 28.1 82% 28.7 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 105%

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,551x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	596x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	890x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	439x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	313x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	344x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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