Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 103%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	111% 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	113% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	29.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180314
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 02:04
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Memory 97.9 1-Core 153 2-Core 300 101% 183 Pts	4-Core 578 8-Core 854 89% 716 Pts	64-Core 855 53% 855 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2138 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 162 Parallax 136 118% 148 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 145 Splatting 118 105% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 427GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6832 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1649 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 53 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 577 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23659364168	113% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 412 Mixed 420 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 45.8 4K Write 90.3 4K Mixed 48.1 179% 61.4 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 119 131% 224 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 232GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1104 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 366 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 60 46 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 222 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4346295142	115% Outstanding	Read 530 Write 419 Mixed 427 102% 459 MB/s	4K Read 46.7 4K Write 93.2 4K Mixed 47 180% 62.3 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 120 134% 229 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 128%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 78 236566144 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10903 (05) Reallocated sector count 59 59 54608 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 24106278 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19418 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3370 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 97 97 3 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 14702 (BC) Unknown 100 99 85901049884 (BD) vendor-specific 75 75 25 (BE) vendor-specific 58 39 447383207978 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1376 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 51774 (C2) HDA temperature 42 61 55834574890 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 1 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 1 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 393 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 132757439126483 (F1) Unknown 100 253 132142109797195 (F2) Unknown 100 253 103789126263949	106% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 187 Mixed 141 127% 170 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.37 106% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 113%
WD Gold 4TB (2016)-$94 4,829 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01M03 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 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 109 (03) Spinup time 137 137 8615494021 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1899 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 140 15 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2240 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 425 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 8076 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 8076 (C2) HDA temperature 130 130 227634184238 (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	65.7% Good	Read 110 Write 118 Mixed 160 99% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 0.64 160% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 111%
Seagate Momentus Thin 5400 2.5" 320GB-$35 9,368 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 248GB free Firmware: 0003DEM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 728 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1264 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 4328105373 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1341 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 995 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032842 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 57 673054760 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 81 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13467 (C2) HDA temperature 40 43 42949673000 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 39 728 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 7507602834283 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1338158320 (F2) Unknown 100 253 837889043 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 1 2032 (FB) Unknown 100 1 816 (FC) Unknown 100 100 378 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	47% Average	Read 79 Write 84.9 Mixed 80.5 61% 81.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.54 94% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 50%
Kingston HyperX Savage USB 3.1 128GB-$80 665 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 117GB free, PID 16b3 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	81.3% Excellent	Read 257 Write 182 Mixed 176 249% 205 MB/s	4K Read 6.79 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.71 80% 2.8 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 104%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 1,022 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 40.3 MC Write 40.8 MC Mixed 32.2 108% 37.8 GB/s	SC Read 24.3 SC Write 44.7 SC Mixed 32 96% 33.7 GB/s	Latency 46.6 86% 46.6 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 148%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,186x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	651x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	446x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,108

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