Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.5% 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	78% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	26.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150810
Uptime	10.7 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '18 at 18:49
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 128 2-Core 249 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 722 72% 587 Pts	64-Core 729 45% 729 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 2992) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 122 Parallax 113 91% 116 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 105 Splatting 96.4 81% 98.9 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 261GB free Firmware: 1B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	255% Outstanding	Read 2,016 Write 1,516 Mixed 1,244 353% 1,592 MB/s	4K Read 53.8 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 54.2 212% 74.2 MB/s	DQ Read 473 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 170 185% 314 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 255% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 3 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26688 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 189 (B1) Unknown 99 99 52 (B3) Unknown 99 99 3 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 3 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1010 (BE) vendor-specific 66 54 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 1010 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 125 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28155516715	78% Very good	Read 377 Write 201 Mixed 268 62% 282 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 82.4 4K Mixed 30.6 133% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 111 117% 195 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 67 88828289 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 63 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13436678 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -13434657692617 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 63 (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 71 58 639238173 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10495 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 77309411357 (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 133655087291716 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2486882642 (F2) Unknown 100 253 58804505	96.2% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 165 Mixed 135 117% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.28 97% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 105%
WD My Book Essentials 1.5TB 1,072 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 7GB free, PID 1110 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	16.3% Very poor	Read 34 Write 34.3 Mixed 18 36% 28.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.26 52% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 16.3% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 3,365 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36.3 MC Write 38.5 MC Mixed 32.2 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.2 SC Write 39.9 SC Mixed 32 89% 31 GB/s	Latency 54.1 74% 54.1 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 101% 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	4,555x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	991x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	441x
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	346x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $958

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