Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	78.1% 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	215% 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 (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU. CPU throttled at 75% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Run History

Motherboard	Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170922
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '17 at 22:15
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	18%
CPU Throttled	75%

PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700-$195 144,475 User benchmarks, average bench 69% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 2.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	72.4% Very good	Memory 83.5 1-Core 82.8 2-Core 163 65% 110 Pts	4-Core 330 8-Core 596 56% 463 Pts	64-Core 876 54% 876 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1652 MHz, MLim: 950 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.10.1 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.1% Very good	Lighting 82.4 Reflection 86.4 Parallax 186 67% 118 fps	MRender 90.7 Gravity 134 Splatting 132 99% 119 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 421GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1120 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 28 (B1) Unknown 100 99 0 (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 67 60 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 149196130	102% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 412 Mixed 416 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 40.9 4K Write 69 4K Mixed 44.6 156% 51.5 MB/s	DQ Read 174 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 90.8 93% 150 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 314GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q 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 97 97 13764 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 631 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 69 42 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 78 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13165463687	86.6% Excellent	Read 515 Write 414 Mixed 424 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 40.8 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 22.6 131% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38.8 DQ Write 71.9 DQ Mixed 21.9 26% 44.2 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 172GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	215% Outstanding	Read 2,242 Write 1,260 Mixed 1,203 345% 1,568 MB/s	4K Read 46.8 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 23.3 142% 49.1 MB/s	DQ Read 190 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 20.9 56% 121 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 215% Great: 236%
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 56GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 8961414 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -100356205795971 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3901 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1030 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8961414 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8961414 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8961414 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14004 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7879 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7879 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5831	38.4% Below average	Read 192 Write 58.8 Mixed 83.9 24% 112 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 61.7 4K Mixed 13.1 83% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 76.5 DQ Write 55.4 DQ Mixed 7.82 22% 46.6 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 38.4% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 78 65 63956068 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1149 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1930164 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -116831700384671 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 28 (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 65 64 589430819 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1068 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2782 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 94489280547 (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 58944131170399 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30705365 (F2) Unknown 100 253 33250703	92.6% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 151 Mixed 137 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.24 87% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Flare X DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB-$73 54,616 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 3466 MHz clocked @ 1733 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 48.1 MC Write 35.2 MC Mixed 35.9 114% 39.7 GB/s	SC Read 24.2 SC Write 36 SC Mixed 32.2 88% 30.8 GB/s	Latency 74.3 54% 74.3 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 129%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus CROSSHAIR VI HERO - $227

CPU
Ryzen 7 1800XAMD $60Bench 72%, 30,050 samples	277x
Ryzen 7 1700XAMD $225Bench 71%, 66,470 samples	206x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	191x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	193x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	155x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	115x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	88x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	60x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	44x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $860

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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