Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 138% UFO	Desktop 132% UFO	Workstation 127% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 119%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	165% 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	185% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

20 days ago, 20 days ago, 18 days ago, 18 days ago, 18 days ago, 18 days ago, 18 days ago, 18 days ago, 18 days ago, 16 days ago, 14 days ago, 13 days ago, 13 days ago, 13 days ago, 12 days ago, 12 days ago, 12 days ago, 12 days ago, 11 days ago, 11 days ago, 9 days ago, 9 days ago, 9 days ago, 9 days ago, 8 days ago, 8 days ago, 4 days ago, 4 days ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171011
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '18 at 21:17
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-8700K-$330 60,870 User benchmarks, average bench 110% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	SC Int 145 SC Float 150 SC Mixed 147 118% 147 Pts	QC Int 578 QC Float 600 QC Mixed 586 133% 588 Pts	MC Int 1102 MC Float 1,256 MC Mixed 1,194 177% 1,184 Pts
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 126%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$799 110,500 User benchmarks, average bench 154% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	165% Outstanding	Lighting 548 Reflection 517 Parallax 571 172% 545 fps	MRender 263 Gravity 526 Splatting 296 160% 362 fps
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 165% Great: 177%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$107 3,599 User benchmarks, average bench 201% 186GB free Firmware: E7FM04.C Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s SYSTEM 4KALIGNED Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	185% Outstanding	Read 1,476 Write 1,252 Mixed 1,249 295% 1,326 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 56 4K Mixed 30.2 106% 37.1 MB/s	DQ Read 545 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 127 163% 301 MB/s
Poor: 132% ↑ This bench: 185% Great: 255%
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$175 6,050 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 118GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 102 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 105 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 65 54 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 450838312	105% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 487 Mixed 487 111% 495 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 93.4 4K Mixed 33.3 135% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 140 150% 250 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 113%
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$175 6,050 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 100GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 100 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 105 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 65 47 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 34 (F1) Unknown 99 99 327251634	107% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 484 Mixed 482 110% 491 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 34.5 141% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 146 158% 266 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 113%
WD Black 4TB (2016)-$180 2,245 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 3TB free Firmware: 81.H0A81 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 105 (03) Spinup time 137 137 38686163425 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 87 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 103 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 87 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 87 (C2) HDA temperature 139 139 214749610027 (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	105% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 186 Mixed 163 132% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 3.7 4K Mixed 0.45 154% 1.66 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 115%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3600 C18 2x8GB-$225 633 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 40.9 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 28.7 105% 36.7 GB/s	SC Read 24.3 SC Write 42.5 SC Mixed 35.3 97% 34 GB/s	Latency 45.6 88% 45.6 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 114%

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Workstation 118%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO - $250

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $330Bench 110%, 60,870 samples	2,038x
Core i5-8600KIntel $238Bench 105%, 20,900 samples	105x
Core i7-8700Intel $299Bench 104%, 8,253 samples	45x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $799Bench 154%, 110,500 samples	936x
GTX 1080Nvidia $550Bench 126%, 192,874 samples	407x
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 282,479 samples	241x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $120Bench 218%, 98,979 samples	386x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $200Bench 233%, 48,631 samples	361x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $325Bench 260%, 18,566 samples	259x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $200Bench 87%, 12,081 samples	148x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $204Bench 91%, 39,599 samples	110x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $190Bench 85%, 62,158 samples	95x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,699

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $80
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $170	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $290	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
Intel Core i7-7700K $286	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $125

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $190	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $931	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $204	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12