Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	85.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	26.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 02:19
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 131 2-Core 226 86% 149 Pts	4-Core 434 8-Core 706 70% 570 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 76.6 Reflection 77 Parallax 66.3 62% 73.3 fps	MRender 71.9 Gravity 71.1 Splatting 72.8 59% 71.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 60%
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Zotac(19DA 1281) 2GB CLim: 1228 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	21.4% Poor	Lighting 24.9 Reflection 24.2 Parallax 31.3 20% 26.8 fps	MRender 33.7 Gravity 29.2 Splatting 25.2 24% 29.4 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.4% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 120GB SSD 143GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11691 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2164 (B1) Unknown 99 99 32 (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 66 57 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12142408467	84.6% Excellent	Read 505 Write 341 Mixed 344 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 65.8 4K Mixed 19.4 112% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 56 93% 182 MB/s

Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6084 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 888 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 114 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1900621 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 18 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 71 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5211	85.1% Excellent	Read 523 Write 386 Mixed 329 91% 412 MB/s	4K Read 32.4 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 12.1 104% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 52.5 95% 188 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 29601480 (03) Spinup time 96 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 236 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8472191 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 850 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 127 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 64 64 605552676 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 953 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 81604378660 (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 -125657858178245 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3957828688 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10018380167	85% Excellent	Read 161 Write 136 Mixed 149 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.16 74% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3000DM008-2DM166 1TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 625GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 789 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 117 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 65 62 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2235911027
Poor: 40% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GB 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	75.2% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 24 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 21 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 110%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,186x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	651x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	446x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,108

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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