Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	93.8% 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	127% 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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	28.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 18 '17 at 18:24
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 144 2-Core 282 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 470 8-Core 763 76% 617 Pts	64-Core 799 49% 799 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2122 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 125 Parallax 105 97% 117 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 110 Splatting 105 87% 106 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$113 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 182GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 187 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 98 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 68 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1928132427	127% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 470 Mixed 497 110% 494 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 55.8 202% 72.9 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 136 158% 272 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 124%
Plextor M5S 128GB-$75 5,727 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 118GB free Firmware: 1.03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 72 (B1) Unknown 100 100 181 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 286 (F2) Unknown 100 100 228	70.8% Very good	Read 377 Write 205 Mixed 263 62% 281 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 61.8 4K Mixed 26.1 111% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 242 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 70.3 94% 170 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 84%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 680GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 100000000 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 87 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1823886 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 182 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 97 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 56 420806681 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 554 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 73014444057 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -88317412507363 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1202917005 (F2) Unknown 100 253 293492593067	86% Excellent	Read 133 Write 166 Mixed 136 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 5.33 4K Mixed 0.81 218% 2.28 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GB 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3021 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 38.1 MC Mixed 29.3 99% 34.6 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 41.3 SC Mixed 29.8 89% 31.1 GB/s	Latency 53.8 74% 53.8 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 110%

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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 - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,616x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	854x
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	608x

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 $48Bench 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: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $698

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $135
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