Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 88.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	103% 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	74.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	20.5 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 04 '18 at 08:54
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Memory 91.1 1-Core 134 2-Core 256 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 726 74% 597 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.9% 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 6180) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 146 Parallax 125 109% 135 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 129 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 360GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2050 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 528 (A5) Unknown 100 100 30146960 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 30 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 520 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 85 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 68 292058890270 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1159642087694 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 846 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8208 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7577 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3223 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.9% Very good	Read 486 Write 338 Mixed 335 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 32.7 4K Mixed 17.2 74% 24.3 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 42.6 95% 201 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 108%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 3.5TB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 71 176836605 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1564 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1282704 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 80122614908705 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 539 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 61 470810652 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 750 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5045 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 68719476764 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -31301721652386 (F1) Unknown 100 253 32630491 (F2) Unknown 100 253 144206114	92.7% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 164 Mixed 132 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.28 95% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 100%
Seagate ST4000VN000-2AH166 1TB 606GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 170 2458 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 497 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2009 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 489 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 72 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4372 (C2) HDA temperature 109 97 34 (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	94% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 151 Mixed 159 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.41 4K Mixed 0.31 113% 1.18 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 3x8GB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3 of 4 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42.4% Average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 14.4 MC Mixed 12.2 39% 13.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 15.8 SC Mixed 14.9 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 109%

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Gaming 86%

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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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

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 $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) $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