Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 92.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	49.5% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	181% 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	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 VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	39.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 19 '17 at 13:39
Run Duration	250 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (60^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 way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.3% Outstanding	Memory 92.3 1-Core 134 2-Core 266 91% 164 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 736 77% 617 Pts	64-Core 736 46% 736 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing below potential (57^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	49.5% Average	Lighting 61.3 Reflection 65 Parallax 58.6 50% 61.6 fps	MRender 71 Gravity 58.2 Splatting 52.2 49% 60.5 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 21,747 User benchmarks, average bench 219% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXZ7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	181% Outstanding	Read 2,147 Write 652 Mixed 1,109 284% 1,303 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 41.1 141% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 34.2 DQ Write 475 DQ Mixed 245 193% 251 MB/s
Poor: 134% ↑ This bench: 181% Great: 292%
Kingston SVP100S264G 64GB 282 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 18GB free Firmware: CJRA0202 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13474 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2158 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 177 177 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 51 (C2) HDA temperature 68 54 197569347616 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	37.7% Below average	Read 185 Write 154 Mixed 202 40% 180 MB/s	4K Read 14.4 4K Write 36.2 4K Mixed 15.4 61% 22 MB/s	DQ Read 19.9 DQ Write 85.2 DQ Mixed 12.5 21% 39.2 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 48%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 7GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q 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 97 97 12319 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2254 (B1) Unknown 98 98 40 (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 66 56 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 435 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12126336952	74.2% Very good	Read 490 Write 370 Mixed 424 95% 428 MB/s	4K Read 18.1 4K Write 47.3 4K Mixed 19.4 77% 28.2 MB/s	DQ Read 292 DQ Write 93.7 DQ Mixed 12.7 56% 133 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 86%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 292GB free Firmware: 1AC01113 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 (03) Spinup time 94 94 2680 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 8964 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19817 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3412 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 58 403898392 (C2) HDA temperature 73 55 504561691 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 196967 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	64.4% Good	Read 110 Write 114 Mixed 110 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.47 122% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 62%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$72 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 231GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 107 99 7625 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12310 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20088 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3122 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 110 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 155 155 135339 (C2) HDA temperature 114 98 33 (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	40.4% Average	Read 71.4 Write 69.3 Mixed 62.4 51% 67.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.32 84% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.4% Great: 57%
Samsung HD300LJ 300GB-$25 1,072 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 26GB free Firmware: ZT100-13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8128 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16908 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14613 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4220 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 31 (C2) HDA temperature 145 91 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 25885 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 73	26.6% Poor	Read 38.8 Write 53.7 Mixed 48.5 36% 47 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.33 81% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 26.6% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.6% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 23.7 76% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 30 SC Mixed 24.9 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 63.4 63% 63.4 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 105%

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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	4,584x
Core i5-6600KIntel $88Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	848x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	603x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	995x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	894x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	474x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	318x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	181x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	348x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	138x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $753

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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