Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.1% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	36.1% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180209
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 12 '18 at 23:59
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X-$60 30,050 User benchmarks, average bench 72% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 80.7 1-Core 122 2-Core 227 80% 143 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 839 77% 646 Pts	64-Core 1,261 78% 1,261 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Sapphire(174B E174) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.1% Very poor	Lighting 17.2 Reflection 13.5 Parallax 14.4 14% 15 fps	MRender 11.1 Gravity 11.4 Splatting 17.3 11% 13.2 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.1% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.3.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 5809643 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 33191507297677 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1080 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 159 (B1) Unknown 0 0 12 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 38657654815 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5809643 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5809643 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5809643 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 34223 (EA) Unknown 0 0 29683 (F1) Unknown 0 0 29683 (F2) Unknown 0 0 62921	36.1% Below average	Read 198 Write 98.8 Mixed 119 31% 139 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 55.6 4K Mixed 8.42 71% 28.2 MB/s	DQ Read 21.5 DQ Write 61.4 DQ Mixed 7.85 16% 30.3 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 79%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$35 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 108GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 141 3808 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4587 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 39783 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1227 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 416 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4170 (C2) HDA temperature 109 96 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	63.7% Good	Read 104 Write 118 Mixed 102 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.31 78% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB-$38 163,634 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 3000 MHz clocked @ 1500 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 41.3 MC Write 38.3 MC Mixed 33 107% 37.5 GB/s	SC Read 24.8 SC Write 37.4 SC Mixed 27.6 86% 29.9 GB/s	Latency 79.3 50% 79.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 103%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO - $227

CPU
Ryzen 7 1800XAMD $60Bench 72%, 30,050 samples	277x
Ryzen 7 1700XAMD $225Bench 71%, 66,470 samples	206x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	191x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	193x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	155x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	115x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	88x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	60x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	44x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $869

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $32	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