Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14.6% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	64.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	5.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 21 '16 at 00:17
Run Duration	609 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570-$99 129,272 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 213 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 421 57% 422 Pts	64-Core 423 26% 423 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Asus(1043 043B) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2511.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	14.6% Very poor	Lighting 18.3 Reflection 17 Parallax 22.7 15% 19.3 fps	MRender 14.2 Gravity 16.4 Splatting 19.1 14% 16.6 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.6% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY XLR8 240GB-$212 552 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 97403368 (05) Reallocated sector count 94 94 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 82858509074485 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 38 98786738204 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 97403368 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 97403368 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 97403368 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 21474836480 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1612 (EA) Unknown 0 0 151 (F1) Unknown 0 0 151 (F2) Unknown 0 0 222	64.8% Good	Read 488 Write 192 Mixed 225 66% 302 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 90.7 4K Mixed 10.3 98% 41.7 MB/s	DQ Read 107 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 38.1 55% 101 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 86%
Sandisk S128G 126GB 21,984 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 117GB free Firmware: 3.2.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7114 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (A5) Unknown 100 100 16610 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 32 227634380832 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 10 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 35 (F1) Unknown 100 100 809385877 (F2) Unknown 100 100 82106215	52% Above average	Read 453 Write 312 Mixed 327 81% 364 MB/s	4K Read 18.2 4K Write 16.6 4K Mixed 8.17 47% 14.3 MB/s	DQ Read 35.3 DQ Write 17.6 DQ Mixed 8.39 11% 20.4 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 56%
Ssd2sc12 0G726A104-475-27 120GB 24 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 35GB free Firmware: 524ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 65131330 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -116204635159065 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 92 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 20 (B1) Unknown 0 0 47 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 85902295070 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 65131330 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 65131330 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 65131330 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 86 86 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 43891 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9821 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9821 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10843	33.8% Below average	Read 503 Write 1.15 Mixed 3.71 35% 169 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 1.88 50% 11.6 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 68%
Intel X25-E Extreme 32GB 215 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 21GB free Firmware: 045C8850 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 0 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 0 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21605 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 454 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 232 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 131528 (E2) Load-in time 255 0 4294967295 (E3) Torque amplification count 0 0 -1 (E4) Power-off retract count 0 0 4294967295	57.4% Above average	Read 263 Write 197 Mixed 234 51% 231 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 21.1 92% 35.2 MB/s	DQ Read 146 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 80.2 83% 133 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 57.4% Great: 57%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 14GB free Firmware: DXT08B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7352 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1096 (B1) Unknown 97 97 31 (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 71 56 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 170 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3961624328	65.6% Good	Read 501 Write 117 Mixed 158 56% 259 MB/s	4K Read 28.7 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 9.52 103% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 98 DQ Mixed 27.4 68% 151 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1333EL Series 2x4GB 878 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1400 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	56.2% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 20.1 MC Mixed 17.3 54% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 17.7 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 54%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO - $190

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,161x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	410x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	176x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	95x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	91x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	88x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	63x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	51x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $640

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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 $40	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