Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC)

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	6.21% 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	173% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC) (all builds)
Memory	22.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171221
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '18 at 05:10
Run Duration	216 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 94.4 1-Core 115 2-Core 229 83% 146 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 824 78% 648 Pts	64-Core 1,100 68% 1,100 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 100%

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: 2012 MHz, MLim: 3252 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.24 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	6.21% Terrible	Lighting 7.73 Reflection 8.27 Parallax 6.16 6% 7.39 fps	MRender 7.57 Gravity 7.97 Splatting 6.83 6% 7.45 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 6.21% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 228GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10233 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1006 (B1) Unknown 98 98 29 (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 70 49 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 192 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21842496277	101% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 397 Mixed 411 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 81.8 4K Mixed 45.1 165% 56.4 MB/s	DQ Read 43.9 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 25 48% 89.7 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 134%
MyDigitalSSD SBX NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$95 196 User benchmarks, average bench 126% 206GB free (System drive) Firmware: E8FM11.4 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	173% Outstanding	Read 1,446 Write 957 Mixed 1,186 266% 1,197 MB/s	4K Read 34.3 4K Write 92.9 4K Mixed 37.4 149% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 108 120% 203 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 173% Great: 170%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 165 165 21489909988 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 16 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 343 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 18 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 163210133536 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	94.8% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 156 Mixed 151 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 1.16 4K Write 0.56 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 108%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 596GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 159 157 5025 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3445 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7675 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3396 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 640 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3444 (C2) HDA temperature 114 101 33 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 91 91 7063 (F1) Unknown 200 200 26611542578 (F2) Unknown 200 200 89183585616	60.7% Good	Read 107 Write 104 Mixed 109 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.46 121% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 62%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 274GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 136 136 21492072743 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1667 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5198 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 485 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3278 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3278 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 171799216159 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 106	70.3% Very good	Read 125 Write 121 Mixed 111 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.16 67% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 108%
WD Black 640GB (2008)-$25 19,988 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 58GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1429 (03) Spinup time 161 156 4916 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18755 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 1 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 34540 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3478 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1534 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18724 (C2) HDA temperature 118 97 29 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (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	64% Good	Read 119 Write 104 Mixed 88.8 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.34 90% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 65%

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 above expectations (67^th percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	MC Read 38.2 MC Write 39.1 MC Mixed 31 103% 36.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 35.1 SC Mixed 24 74% 25.7 GB/s	Latency 58.7 68% 58.7 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 118%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 103%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC) - $320

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,904x
Core i9-9900KIntel $409Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	265x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	259x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	867x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	354x
RTX 3080-TiNvidia $660Bench 204%, 155,335 samples	261x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	273x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	188x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	180x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	331x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	192x
KHX2400C15/8G KHX2400C15D4/4G KHX2400C15/8G 20GBKingstonBench 84%, 239 samples	69x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $1,262

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $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