Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 118% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 99.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	129% 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	225% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170823
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '18 at 12:08
Run Duration	260 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing as expected (46^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-$198 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	99.1% Outstanding	Memory 93.4 1-Core 149 2-Core 287 97% 177 Pts	4-Core 563 8-Core 898 90% 730 Pts	64-Core 1,192 74% 1,192 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 181 Reflection 196 Parallax 177 147% 185 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 173 Splatting 123 113% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	225% Outstanding	Read 2,030 Write 1,207 Mixed 1,168 324% 1,468 MB/s	4K Read 52.2 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 27.3 178% 66.9 MB/s	DQ Read 564 DQ Write 293 DQ Mixed 182 201% 347 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 225% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 367GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 212476864 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3539 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 50 50 55836096137 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20391 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 310 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 521994270 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 116 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 48 48 104575 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 30064771102 (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 30051886171719 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6942318328 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10648950574	60.5% Good	Read 113 Write 97.6 Mixed 101 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.29 81% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 130GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 912 (03) Spinup time 93 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1426 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13917142 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42205 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 622 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295098372 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 555614239 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 534 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1457 (C2) HDA temperature 31 51 34359738399 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 16 3 912 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -70446053550287 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3166997993 (F2) Unknown 100 253 983085217	54.7% Above average	Read 82.3 Write 109 Mixed 105 75% 98.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.71 128% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 44GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 296 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1064 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 51917159 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 45743 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 738 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 47 488439837 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 667 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1322 (C2) HDA temperature 29 53 34359738397 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 3 296 (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 -71429601055419 (F1) Unknown 100 253 569547702 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2637538516	57.2% Above average	Read 123 Write 76.7 Mixed 104 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.64 122% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 25GB free Firmware: CR100-10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5760 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 21646 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 47969 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2530 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 51 27 (C2) HDA temperature 157 91 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 157840 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 38	35.6% Below average	Read 62.8 Write 61.2 Mixed 63.7 47% 62.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.36 86% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 44%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 8GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 40655520 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4648 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 40 38 7116776408552 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 32297 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 470 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 47 538771487 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 132 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 260513 (C2) HDA temperature 31 53 25769803807 (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 -84464826833091 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15941998360 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16301732142	65.1% Good	Read 129 Write 98.4 Mixed 109 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.23 66% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 113%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 1GB free Firmware: CR100-10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5760 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6153 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 33987 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 633 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 55 27 (C2) HDA temperature 157 103 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 364682 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 38	23.1% Poor	Read 36.8 Write 43.5 Mixed 51.8 34% 44 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.34 81% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 23.1% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.7% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 26.4 MC Mixed 20.1 70% 24.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 22.5 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 61.2 65% 61.2 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 110%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO - $250

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $198Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,380x
Core i9-9900KIntel $427Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	298x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	685x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	335x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	229x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	199x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	182x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	177x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	145x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $56Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	115x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	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) $34	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