Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	84.8% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	16.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Jun 07 '18 at 07:09
Run Duration	243 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	Memory 91.9 1-Core 123 2-Core 210 82% 141 Pts	4-Core 395 8-Core 547 59% 471 Pts	64-Core 681 42% 681 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	88.1% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 120 Parallax 113 92% 115 fps	MRender 98.5 Gravity 110 Splatting 90 81% 99.4 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 332GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5659 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 444 (B1) Unknown 92 92 40 (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 60 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 37 (F1) Unknown 99 99 41557532664	84.8% Excellent	Read 480 Write 261 Mixed 267 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 58.8 4K Mixed 29.1 127% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 66.8 101% 195 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 123%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 74379280 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 440 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 35048 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5439 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 439 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 62 571736097 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 225778 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 73014444065 (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 -11858404699806 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14204225 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48290713	106% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 168 Mixed 160 132% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.24 93% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 196645400 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1042 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21843354 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5457 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 439 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 61 605356067 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 10 10 180031 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 73014444067 (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 -20963735368138 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17754760757 (F2) Unknown 100 253 327305218842	98.5% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 171 Mixed 147 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 63 39364685 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 548 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2499158 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5790 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 488 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 62 555089952 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 596 (C2) HDA temperature 32 18 77309411360 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 1 39364685 (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 96181497632112 (F1) Unknown 100 253 749655388 (F2) Unknown 100 253 932192033	106% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 177 Mixed 144 128% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.25 99% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 112%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 32GB 1,150 User benchmarks, average bench 9% 27GB free, PID 00d4 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	10.3% Very poor	Read 26.1 Write 11.7 Mixed 11.6 18% 16.5 MB/s	4K Read 6.09 4K Write 0.82 4K Mixed 0.58 70% 2.49 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 10.3% Great: 11%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2666 C15 2x16GB 771 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 30.3 MC Mixed 25.7 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 17.9 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 96%

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Desktop 87%

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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