Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.6% 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	114% 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.

Run History

23 months ago, 23 months ago, 7 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 28 '22 at 19:22
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 92.4 1-Core 128 2-Core 229 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 686 68% 555 Pts	64-Core 697 43% 697 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 516.40 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.6% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 111 Parallax 102 84% 105 fps	MRender 93.3 Gravity 102 Splatting 99.5 81% 98.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Braveeagle 960GB 960GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 223GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0526A SusWrite @10s intervals: 457 442 409 409 415 326 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	114% Outstanding	Read 446 Write 440 Mixed 379 SusWrite 410 94% 419 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 52.5 176% 65.5 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 107 148% 272 MB/s
Poor: 88% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 122%
Hitachi HCS5C2020ALA632 2TB 1,802 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 977GB free Firmware: ML6OA800 SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 92 91 93 94 93 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	54.7% Above average	Read 97.8 Write 92.4 Mixed 60.2 SusWrite 92.7 63% 85.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.7 142% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GB 1,234 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 32.2 MC Mixed 26.2 85% 29.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 34.4 SC Mixed 26.4 77% 26.8 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 95%

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

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,616x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	854x
Core i7-7700KIntel $234Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	608x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,001x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	901x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	477x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	444x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	320x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	182x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	352x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	259x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	138x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $698

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