Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 85%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	75.2% 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	72.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 07 '17 at 13:44
Run Duration	377 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 83 1-Core 132 2-Core 257 87% 157 Pts	4-Core 468 8-Core 713 73% 590 Pts	64-Core 713 44% 713 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75.2% Very good	Lighting 97.2 Reflection 103 Parallax 93.2 79% 97.7 fps	MRender 86.9 Gravity 89.5 Splatting 74.3 68% 83.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 240GB-$65 502 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 223GB free Firmware: 332ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 5018911 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 24197845755428 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1111 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 35 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 47 55837655069 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5018911 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5018911 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5018911 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9058 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9608 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9608 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9882	87.6% Excellent	Read 504 Write 254 Mixed 307 78% 355 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 23.1 138% 55.4 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 77.8 108% 199 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 92%
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 157GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5190 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 99 (A5) Unknown 100 100 67896249 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 43 (A8) Unknown 100 100 35 (A9) Unknown 100 100 779 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 41 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 61 261994250272 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2508282331720 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 12682 (EA) Unknown 100 100 19536 (F1) Unknown 253 253 16396 (F2) Unknown 253 253 13660 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	63% Good	Read 323 Write 223 Mixed 215 56% 254 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 54.1 4K Mixed 15.9 94% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 32.8 71% 150 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 107%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 138GB free (System drive) Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6729 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 407 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 20 (A8) Unknown 100 100 99 (A9) Unknown 100 100 438 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 26 (AE) Unknown 100 100 48 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 40 171799609379 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 86 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6987 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3845 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3866 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.4% Very good	Read 343 Write 399 Mixed 356 82% 366 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 74.2 4K Mixed 17.9 109% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 31.7 DQ Write 76.9 DQ Mixed 64.9 46% 57.8 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 114%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 105GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7525 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 666 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 64 58 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5887567289	115% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 418 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 98.2 4K Mixed 48.5 181% 63.6 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 118 137% 236 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 134%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 179 7991 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4086 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6877 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 120 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 160 160 121906 (C2) HDA temperature 122 110 30 (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	72.6% Very good	Read 129 Write 123 Mixed 119 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.29 112% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 87%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 181 7841 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4239 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6641 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 120 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 164 164 109980 (C2) HDA temperature 121 111 31 (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	69.8% Good	Read 120 Write 123 Mixed 121 92% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.2 106% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 87%
PNY Hook Attache 16GB 81 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 13GB free, PID 6002 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	6.28% Terrible	Read 22.5 Write 5.57 Mixed 4.71 10% 10.9 MB/s	4K Read 5.74 4K Write 0.15 4K Mixed 0.14 31% 2.01 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.28% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 89,024 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.8% Very good	MC Read 25.9 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 23.2 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 26.3 SC Mixed 21.7 61% 21.3 GB/s	Latency 75.2 53% 75.2 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 119%

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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 $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 $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