Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91.5% 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	81.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20151001
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Aug 26 '17 at 08:19
Run Duration	229 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	1%

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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	91.4% Outstanding	Memory 91.8 1-Core 134 2-Core 263 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 490 8-Core 742 76% 616 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36DD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 122 Parallax 117 96% 119 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 104 Splatting 98.9 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 132GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8303373 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -89146341191430 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1263 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 44 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 42 55837327387 (C2) HDA temperature 27 42 55837327387 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8303373 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8303373 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8303373 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 85899345921 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7656 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4732 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4732 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9228 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2293783	81.3% Excellent	Read 519 Write 240 Mixed 266 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 17.7 128% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 153 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 55.2 83% 152 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 401GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 192730344 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1258 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4184293 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4289 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1258 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 55 521469983 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 66014 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 47244640287 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -63569810946396 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7894444329 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8756629410	98.6% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 157 Mixed 160 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.22 77% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 113%
Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 1GB free, PID 0ad0 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	7.69% Terrible	Read 28.4 Write 7.66 Mixed 12.1 17% 16.1 MB/s	4K Read 7.73 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 30% 2.59 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 7.69% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 51,435 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.9% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.8 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 29.3 SC Mixed 24.5 68% 24 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 108%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,590x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	851x
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	604x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	995x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	896x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	476x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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	349x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	255x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	138x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $758

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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