Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 120% UFO	Desktop 105% UFO	Workstation 105% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 97.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	120% 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	271% 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 IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Feb 12 '18 at 14:03
Run Duration	278 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	97.3% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 157 2-Core 297 102% 184 Pts	4-Core 524 8-Core 830 83% 677 Pts	64-Core 848 52% 848 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 170 Reflection 179 Parallax 151 138% 167 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 164 Splatting 99.9 100% 125 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 320GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	271% Outstanding	Read 2,668 Write 1,253 Mixed 1,355 386% 1,759 MB/s	4K Read 57.6 4K Write 132 4K Mixed 52.7 224% 80.7 MB/s	DQ Read 574 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 182 208% 363 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 271% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 119GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 7 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12744 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2758 (B1) Unknown 90 90 348 (B3) Unknown 99 99 7 (B5) Unknown 99 99 7 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 7 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1204 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2138648059	98.3% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 370 Mixed 420 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 35.4 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 25.2 140% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 68.6 121% 238 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 110%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 101GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2376 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 516 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 68 54 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2277039129	115% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 412 Mixed 416 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 93.9 4K Mixed 49.3 183% 63.2 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 132 144% 243 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 134%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 2TB 7,767 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 498GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	62.7% Good	Read 152 Write 66.2 Mixed 63.7 70% 94.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.43 97% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 123%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 432GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 47296759 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5928 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 13143878342 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 20128 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3379 (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 67 51 555024417 (C2) HDA temperature 33 49 55834574881 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 18 18 47296759 (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 58115202514057 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1929404660 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3209018932	51.1% Above average	Read 94.9 Write 83.3 Mixed 102 71% 93.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.36 79% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 68%
Generic- USB3.0 CRW -SD 128GB 176 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 109GB free, PID 0306 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	18.2% Very poor	Read 36.1 Write 20.2 Mixed 17.6 28% 24.6 MB/s	4K Read 8.18 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 1.5 155% 3.94 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 30,943 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	92.8% Outstanding	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 34.5 MC Mixed 27.5 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 21.3 SC Write 33.8 SC Mixed 28.8 80% 28 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 103%

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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