Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	104% 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	81.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150706
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 18 '18 at 19:15
Run Duration	239 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 140 2-Core 282 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 564 8-Core 581 76% 572 Pts	64-Core 447 28% 447 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1425) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 140 Parallax 134 110% 136 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 133 Splatting 108 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 894GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12886278162 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 47 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 78 27 115965493270 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 34359738376 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	83.6% Excellent	Read 495 Write 308 Mixed 323 83% 375 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 83.2 4K Mixed 18.7 117% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 13.1 74% 170 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 107%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 200 100 2248 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1942 (A6) Unknown 100 100 910 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 961 (A9) Unknown 100 100 34 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 944 (AE) Unknown 100 100 181 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 100 214748364832 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 31 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 203705 (F1) Unknown 253 253 12285 (F2) Unknown 253 253 25647	81.6% Excellent	Read 521 Write 426 Mixed 458 104% 468 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 4.95 114% 50.5 MB/s	DQ Read 32.7 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 26.6 36% 62.2 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 86%
SiImage 120GB 244 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 18GB free Firmware: 0000 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	20.4% Poor	Read 146 Write 48.5 Mixed 60.3 18% 84.8 MB/s	4K Read 4.05 4K Write 54.9 4K Mixed 1.83 38% 20.3 MB/s	DQ Read 3.9 DQ Write 52.6 DQ Mixed 1.97 9% 19.5 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 20.4% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 378GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 93 243791428 (03) Spinup time 100 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5033 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 95 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 312991088 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 29988 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4739 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 123 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 390 (BE) vendor-specific 75 53 421068825 (C2) HDA temperature 25 47 47244640281 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 28 243791428 (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 48795123479788 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4075983333 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3612096505	52.6% Above average	Read 96.6 Write 86.7 Mixed 92.2 69% 91.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.32 80% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 70%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 233GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 24269317 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 42227032 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30359 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3751 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 68 60130459694 (BD) vendor-specific 5 5 95 (BE) vendor-specific 79 56 353697813 (C2) HDA temperature 21 44 38654705685 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 43 24269317 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 975	39.4% Below average	Read 85.2 Write 52.1 Mixed 68.8 52% 68.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.27 74% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 60%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 109GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 64781704 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2771 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 65953193 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14632 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2345 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 88 88 12 (BE) vendor-specific 78 61 370475030 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 107 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 29 29 143721 (C2) HDA temperature 22 40 38654705686 (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 46321222293669 (F1) Unknown 100 253 57243149675 (F2) Unknown 100 253 836442728607	86.6% Excellent	Read 173 Write 129 Mixed 120 105% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.15 61% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	97.8% Outstanding	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 37.5 MC Mixed 31.2 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 38.6 SC Mixed 29.8 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 56 71% 56 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 95%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	841x
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	887x
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	312x
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 $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