Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 135% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 117% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 97.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	136% 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	297% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '18 at 03:19
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 145 2-Core 287 98% 176 Pts	4-Core 529 8-Core 814 83% 672 Pts	64-Core 815 50% 815 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 193 Reflection 205 Parallax 213 157% 204 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 186 Splatting 132 121% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 425GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	297% Outstanding	Read 2,793 Write 1,819 Mixed 2,039 491% 2,217 MB/s	4K Read 53.9 4K Write 182 4K Mixed 41.5 231% 92.4 MB/s	DQ Read 55.6 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 42.2 61% 107 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 297% Great: 353%
Seagate Barracuda Pro 6TB (2016)-$149 321 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4TB free Firmware: DN03 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 81 64 113112519 (03) Spinup time 85 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1253 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 142313840 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -138667314116857 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 353 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 555745313 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 880 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6429 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 55834574881 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 1 113112519 (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 -82390357638200 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11464502644 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13738602507
Poor: 23% Great: 118%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 921GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 15624000 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3245 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18210315 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9624 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2009 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590131204 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 56 488374301 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 221 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6857 (C2) HDA temperature 29 44 60129542173 (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 -24558622987309 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11686243248 (F2) Unknown 100 253 740112218239	90.9% Outstanding	Read 116 Write 200 Mixed 122 109% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 0.93 238% 2.37 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 112%
WD WD20EACS-11BHUB0 2TB 1,089 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 545GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 188 166 5566 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4632 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19180 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1968 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 294 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 25 25 527811 (C2) HDA temperature 123 100 27 (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	45.9% Average	Read 83.5 Write 76.3 Mixed 84.3 61% 81.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.24 74% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 30,689 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 38.3 MC Write 41.3 MC Mixed 34.3 108% 38 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 45.6 SC Mixed 31.5 94% 33.1 GB/s	Latency 51.7 77% 51.7 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 118%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,546x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	842x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
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	342x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

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