Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84% 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	205% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 04 '16 at 13:34
Run Duration	330 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 116 2-Core 229 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 648 68% 546 Pts	64-Core 641 40% 641 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 115 Parallax 98.7 85% 106 fps	MRender 97.8 Gravity 97.1 Splatting 102 81% 99 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
ST3000DM001-1ER166 500GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 123% 273GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 35 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 74 66 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 367279176	116% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 466 Mixed 498 109% 488 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 53.7 174% 63.1 MB/s	DQ Read 296 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 144 149% 243 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 135%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 153GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	205% Outstanding	Read 1,918 Write 916 Mixed 1,164 293% 1,333 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 155 4K Mixed 43.7 176% 74.6 MB/s	DQ Read 520 DQ Write 324 DQ Mixed 192 205% 345 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 205% Great: 243%
WD Black 1.5TB (2010) 6,983 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 995GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 7425 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4028 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6323 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3558 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 506 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3521 (C2) HDA temperature 119 103 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	80.1% Excellent	Read 147 Write 133 Mixed 123 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.43 117% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 85%
Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB 158 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 4GB free, PID 0ab1 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	7.93% Terrible	Read 31 Write 6.09 Mixed 1.62 11% 12.9 MB/s	4K Read 8.62 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 34% 2.89 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 7.93% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$57 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 39.1 MC Write 41.3 MC Mixed 33.9 109% 38.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 35.9 SC Mixed 28.1 80% 27.8 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 107%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,616x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	854x
Core i7-7700KIntel $234Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	607x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,001x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	901x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	477x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	444x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	320x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	182x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	352x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	259x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	138x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

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Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $145
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369