Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.5% 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	69.6% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '17 at 20:54
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4771-$129 11,180 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	Memory 83.6 1-Core 106 2-Core 201 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 565 60% 478 Pts	64-Core 566 35% 566 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-Ti-$152 36,698 User benchmarks, average bench 14% EVGA(3842 3651) 2GB CLim: 928 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	14.5% Very poor	Lighting 17.2 Reflection 16.1 Parallax 21.2 14% 18.1 fps	MRender 22 Gravity 21.4 Splatting 15.2 16% 19.6 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 14.5% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 111GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15972 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 384 (B1) Unknown 88 88 145 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 69 61 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 60614715853	69.6% Good	Read 366 Write 255 Mixed 259 65% 293 MB/s	4K Read 34.8 4K Write 45.1 4K Mixed 21.9 105% 33.9 MB/s	DQ Read 238 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 67.5 82% 147 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 118%
Seagate Expansion Desk 5TB 11,776 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4.5TB free Firmware: 9401 Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	23.2% Poor	Read 39.9 Write 39.3 Mixed 33 28% 37.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 5.05 4K Mixed 0.58 197% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 23.2% Great: 87%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 363GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2291 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 421 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2653 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4941 (C2) HDA temperature 116 109 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	89.5% Excellent	Read 162 Write 150 Mixed 138 112% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.34 117% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 108%
WD My Book 1130 2TB 1,666 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 890GB free, PID 1130 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	29.5% Poor	Read 62.8 Write 70.3 Mixed 51.4 79% 61.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.13 62% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 48%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 18.1 MC Mixed 15 48% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 15.4 45% 15.7 GB/s	Latency 74.1 54% 74.1 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 76%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 81%

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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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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