Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (21st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 79 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	127% 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	78.3% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 days ago, 3 days ago, 3 days ago, 3 days ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	7.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	7.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 08 '21 at 13:56
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	33%

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PC Performing below expectations (21^st 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-$267 535,154 User benchmarks, average bench 83% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	68.7% Good	Memory 74.8 1-Core 120 2-Core 222 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 337 8-Core 526 55% 432 Pts	64-Core 599 40% 599 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti-$400 44,124 User benchmarks, average bench 131% Nvidia(10DE 147A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 461.92 Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 175 Reflection 164 Parallax 153 142% 164 fps	MRender 169 Gravity 131 Splatting 113 110% 138 fps
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 143%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDS500G2B0A 500GB 15,312 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61190WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 291 348 247 281 123 80 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Read 324 Write 327 Mixed 275 SusWrite 228 65% 288 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 71.7 4K Mixed 37.5 130% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 190 158% 230 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 118%
Crucial BX100 250GB-$99 31,491 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 64GB free Firmware: MU01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 300 341 345 340 353 286 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	87% Excellent	Read 414 Write 339 Mixed 327 SusWrite 328 79% 352 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 85 4K Mixed 35.6 128% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 190 157% 226 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 103%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$40 1,287,629 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 161GB free Firmware: CC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 92 99 99 99 102 98 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	73.7% Very good	Read 159 Write 126 Mixed 83.7 SusWrite 98.2 86% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.9 172% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 52,140 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	58.9% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 24.6 MC Mixed 19.7 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 12.3 40% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 90.8 44% 90.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 85%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds.

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 77%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $220

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $267Bench 83%, 535,154 samples	6,282x
Core i5-6600KIntel $188Bench 81%, 290,890 samples	1,441x
Core i7-7700KIntel $274Bench 87%, 486,187 samples	755x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $450Bench 106%, 850,334 samples	1,432x
GTX 1070Nvidia $330Bench 80%, 1,088,853 samples	1,364x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $808Bench 135%, 622,921 samples	791x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $140Bench 111%, 660,175 samples	793x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 104%, 758,733 samples	589x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $110Bench 115%, 375,788 samples	256x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $73Bench 82%, 440,698 samples	610x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $79Bench 85%, 429,937 samples	386x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $70Bench 78%, 96,212 samples	213x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $1,150

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-11400F $173	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Crucial MX500 250GB $49
Intel Core i5-11600K $265	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i5-10600K $220	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $50

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $40	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $79	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $73	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16