Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 134% UFO	Desktop 106% UFO	Workstation 117% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 99.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	132% 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	330% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Sep 24 '17 at 17:19
Run Duration	213 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd 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-$230 712,312 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)	99.3% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 160 2-Core 293 102% 183 Pts	4-Core 546 8-Core 852 86% 699 Pts	64-Core 884 55% 884 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6599) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 209 Parallax 185 151% 193 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 184 Splatting 128 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 565GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16572 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 800 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 71 66 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 1 1 736904 (EB) Unknown 99 99 104 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20428898373	125% Outstanding	Read 528 Write 502 Mixed 522 116% 517 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 50.2 187% 70.4 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 332 DQ Mixed 178 182% 298 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 392GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	330% Outstanding	Read 2,947 Write 1,716 Mixed 1,828 478% 2,164 MB/s	4K Read 55.6 4K Write 186 4K Mixed 74.4 278% 105 MB/s	DQ Read 573 DQ Write 417 DQ Mixed 230 244% 406 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 330% Great: 353%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 112GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7990 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 793 (B1) Unknown 99 99 50 (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 70 63 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 151 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15785834944	126% Outstanding	Read 530 Write 502 Mixed 511 115% 515 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 50.5 190% 71.2 MB/s	DQ Read 389 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 174 182% 301 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 124%
WD Black 6TB (2015)-$296 5,447 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 226 100 7691 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2840 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7442 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 982 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 240 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 2600 (C2) HDA temperature 121 113 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0	99.1% Outstanding	Read 150 Write 195 Mixed 139 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 3.1 4K Write 2.51 4K Mixed 0.41 221% 2.01 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 118%
WD Black 6TB (2015)-$296 5,447 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 225 100 7725 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4291 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7436 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2678 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 100 1940 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 2350 (C2) HDA temperature 120 107 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0
Poor: 61% Great: 118%
WD Black 6TB (2015)-$296 5,447 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 226 100 7666 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2877 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7427 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1000 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 259 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 2617 (C2) HDA temperature 120 109 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0	86.9% Excellent	Read 144 Write 158 Mixed 139 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 3.21 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.28 215% 2.06 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 118%
WD Black 6TB (2015)-$296 5,447 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 225 100 7725 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2465 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7454 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1067 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 331 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 2136 (C2) HDA temperature 121 113 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0	121% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 240 Mixed 187 152% 202 MB/s	4K Read 4.01 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.3 249% 2.32 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 118%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3600 C16 2x8GB-$96 4,081 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	MC Read 42 MC Write 41.5 MC Mixed 31.3 109% 38.3 GB/s	SC Read 25.4 SC Write 46.9 SC Mixed 35.3 102% 35.9 GB/s	Latency 50 80% 50 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 128%

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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