Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.4% 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	74.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20181207
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 29 '19 at 01:22
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X-$225 66,470 User benchmarks, average bench 71% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 82.8 1-Core 122 2-Core 233 82% 146 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 788 77% 630 Pts	64-Core 1,312 81% 1,312 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% Asus(1043 04C4) CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.1.2 Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	85.4% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 84.8 Parallax 150 82% 112 fps	MRender 87.5 Gravity 113 Splatting 126 91% 109 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 SATA M.2 275GB-$42 16,792 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR060 SusWrite @10s intervals: 422 447 197 154 148 144 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Read 355 Write 460 Mixed 378 SusWrite 252 82% 361 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 69.2 4K Mixed 33.5 116% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 191 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 191 145% 194 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 95%
Samsung PB22-JS3 FDE 2.5" 128GB 813 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 70GB free Firmware: VBM9MD1Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 103 116 153 148 152 155 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	30.4% Below average	Read 192 Write 69.5 Mixed 120 SusWrite 138 29% 130 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 8.9 4K Mixed 9.2 47% 12.7 MB/s	DQ Read 15.8 DQ Write 7.4 DQ Mixed 9.2 7% 10.8 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 30.4% Great: 32%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 22GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 101 100 101 100 100 101 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	55.5% Above average	Read 92.5 Write 90 Mixed 63.8 SusWrite 100 64% 86.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 1 191% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 50GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 96 98 96 90 94 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	54.6% Above average	Read 94.3 Write 89 Mixed 59.3 SusWrite 95.3 62% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1 206% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$55 215,644 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 41.6 MC Write 35.6 MC Mixed 33.1 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 24 SC Write 38.7 SC Mixed 27.5 86% 30.1 GB/s	Latency 75.5 53% 75.5 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 107%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO - $227

CPU
Ryzen 7 1800XAMD $60Bench 72%, 30,050 samples	277x
Ryzen 7 1700XAMD $225Bench 71%, 66,470 samples	206x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	191x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	193x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	155x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	115x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	88x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	60x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	44x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $860

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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