Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 135% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 125% UFO


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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 103%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	129% 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	206% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (all builds)
Memory	18.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170823
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '18 at 09:22
Run Duration	315 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	7%

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 i7-8700K-$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 way above expectations (99^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 149 2-Core 296 99% 180 Pts	4-Core 591 8-Core 958 95% 774 Pts	64-Core 1,209 75% 1,209 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6598) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 196 Parallax 176 148% 185 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 173 Splatting 125 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 765GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	206% Outstanding	Read 1,547 Write 1,079 Mixed 1,146 279% 1,257 MB/s	4K Read 42.3 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 43.7 185% 69.6 MB/s	DQ Read 563 DQ Write 444 DQ Mixed 196 230% 401 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 206% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 530GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6961 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 546 (B1) Unknown 99 1 18 (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 79 60 21 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 34 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14270469805	113% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 494 Mixed 518 114% 510 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 48.5 175% 66.7 MB/s	DQ Read 36.9 DQ Write 315 DQ Mixed 151 124% 168 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 139GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8648 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 662 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 79 59 21 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13000600369	109% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 410 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 50.3 185% 66.1 MB/s	DQ Read 45.8 DQ Write 270 DQ Mixed 134 110% 150 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 133%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 95GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20233 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1522 (B1) Unknown 91 91 100 (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 78 51 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1150 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14170862961	88.3% Excellent	Read 498 Write 345 Mixed 355 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 83 4K Mixed 26.3 140% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 44.4 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 74.3 76% 116 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 24GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20244 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1533 (B1) Unknown 65 65 415 (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 78 51 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1158 (F1) Unknown 99 99 43847592778	93.5% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 312 Mixed 354 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 84.2 4K Mixed 26.5 141% 50.6 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 80.5 117% 221 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 118%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 175 5866 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3314 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1277 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 28828 (C2) HDA temperature 125 107 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0
Poor: 42% Great: 88%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 172 6016 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3327 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1277 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 28614 (C2) HDA temperature 123 104 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0
Poor: 42% Great: 88%
Corsair Flash Voyager GT USB 3.0 32GB-$20 701 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 24GB free, PID 1a09 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	44.6% Average	Read 232 Write 30.4 Mixed 42.1 90% 101 MB/s	4K Read 7.8 4K Write 0.82 4K Mixed 0.4 71% 3.01 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 44.6% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB 11,284 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	99.8% Outstanding	MC Read 37.6 MC Write 38.4 MC Mixed 29.2 100% 35.1 GB/s	SC Read 21.9 SC Write 43 SC Mixed 30.6 91% 31.8 GB/s	Latency 53.1 75% 53.1 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 118%

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Workstation 103%

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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 $625Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	229x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 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: $1,124

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	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