Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	112% 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	121% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	24 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	Цвета: 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Oct 22 '16 at 21:11
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	UKR-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing as expected (58^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 (49^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 84 1-Core 127 2-Core 238 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 415 8-Core 722 69% 568 Pts	64-Core 726 45% 726 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7306 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 155 Parallax 132 123% 146 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 139 Splatting 109 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 231GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 99 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 19 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 65 59 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1408958664	121% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 482 Mixed 507 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 41.4 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 52.1 187% 67.1 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 140 148% 244 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB-$80 4,893 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 196GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 5238266 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -118300579178301 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2189 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 487 (B1) Unknown 0 0 13 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 81 81 19 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5238266 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5238266 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5238266 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 51985 (EA) Unknown 0 0 107309 (F1) Unknown 0 0 107309 (F2) Unknown 0 0 42558	78.5% Very good	Read 512 Write 199 Mixed 287 73% 333 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 16.4 120% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 71.8 104% 194 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 91%
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB-$80 4,893 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 95GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 13007568 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -66571993065283 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2185 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 485 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13007568 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13007568 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13007568 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11825 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14105 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14105 (F2) Unknown 0 0 28733	82.8% Excellent	Read 497 Write 260 Mixed 317 79% 358 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 16.6 123% 50.3 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 75 108% 201 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 91%
Seagate ST3000NM0033-9ZM178 3TB 1,501 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 1.5TB free Firmware: SN03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 122454964 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2301 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 93 60 2288277744 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13974 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1473 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 2228258 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 47816638497 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 347 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2406 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 -140737488355295 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 3 122454964 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	76.8% Very good	Read 139 Write 129 Mixed 122 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 1.18 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.52 146% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 102%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C13 4x8GB 402 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.7% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 20.8 66% 23.2 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 20.3 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 116%

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Gaming 86%

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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	4,555x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	991x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	441x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	313x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	346x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $958

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