Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 142% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 122% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 104%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	136% 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	67.9% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 22 '17 at 00:15
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$248 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Memory 98.2 1-Core 160 2-Core 319 105% 193 Pts	4-Core 594 8-Core 858 91% 726 Pts	64-Core 877 54% 877 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2951 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.19 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 210 Parallax 187 157% 196 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 184 Splatting 133 122% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 960GB-$190 3,375 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 480GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 182 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 176 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C2) HDA temperature 68 53 201864970272 (F1) Unknown 100 100 62934	75.8% Very good	Read 519 Write 357 Mixed 351 91% 409 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 72 4K Mixed 9.35 98% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 32.1 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 41.3 58% 101 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 103%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8217 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5379 (B1) Unknown 91 91 327 (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 49 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 164 (EB) Unknown 99 99 620 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19419418995	67.9% Good	Read 513 Write 268 Mixed 364 84% 382 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 64.9 4K Mixed 21.1 96% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 24.2 DQ Write 67.2 DQ Mixed 12.8 19% 34.7 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 76%
Adata SP900 256GB-$300 9,430 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 53GB free Firmware: 5.8.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 6552668 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 25477746005057 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3406 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 320 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 61 85903343652 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6552668 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6552668 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6552668 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 8589934592 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5151 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5592 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5592 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7600	84.2% Excellent	Read 518 Write 227 Mixed 348 80% 364 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 19.4 135% 55.6 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 64.6 97% 183 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 89%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 409GB free Firmware: 1AJ100E5 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 72 69 8786 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5833 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8949 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 478 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5791 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 184684642335 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 478 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9187	79.8% Very good	Read 135 Write 142 Mixed 129 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.66 4K Mixed 0.39 124% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3600 C17 2x8GB-$83 1,785 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 42 MC Write 44.7 MC Mixed 30.6 112% 39.1 GB/s	SC Read 25.1 SC Write 47.5 SC Mixed 35.2 103% 35.9 GB/s	Latency 44.9 89% 44.9 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 123%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $248Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,232x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	757x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	657x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	452x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	214x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $140Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	176x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	221x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	172x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	110x

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Value: 70% - Good

Total price: $1,086

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16