Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.4% 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	276% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	26.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 28 '18 at 22:27
Run Duration	226 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 94.3 1-Core 134 2-Core 246 90% 158 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 646 62% 512 Pts	64-Core 706 44% 706 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 416.94 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 115 Parallax 112 88% 112 fps	MRender 94.6 Gravity 100 Splatting 88.6 77% 94.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 326GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 2073 743 613 614 617 619 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	276% Outstanding	Read 2,440 Write 2,285 Mixed 1554 SusWrite 880 400% 1,790 MB/s	4K Read 57.7 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 79.7 261% 91 MB/s	DQ Read 1,053 DQ Write 910 DQ Mixed 991 740% 984 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 276% Great: 340%
Seagate 600 480GB-$199 1,254 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 285GB free Firmware: C675 SusWrite @10s intervals: 443 443 441 443 442 437 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 486 Write 435 Mixed 354 SusWrite 441 96% 429 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 88.8 4K Mixed 39.8 140% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 250 213% 312 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 104%
ST8000NM0045-1RL112 8TB 109 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 4TB free Firmware: NN02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 199 201 203 203 201 199 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	23.1% Poor	Read 195 Write 198 Mixed 87.7 SusWrite 201 38% 170 MB/s	4K Read 1.8 4K Write 10.2 4K Mixed 1.1 10% 4.37 MB/s	DQ Read 5.4 DQ Write 8.6 DQ Mixed 1.7 3% 5.23 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 23.1% Great: 26%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 130 132 136 133 134 135 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	78.4% Very good	Read 140 Write 136 Mixed 80 SusWrite 133 90% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 3 4K Mixed 1 204% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 76,101 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	99% Outstanding	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 38.3 MC Mixed 32 101% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 40.5 SC Mixed 29.5 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 106%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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	4,543x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	840x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 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 $499Bench 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 $273	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 $186	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