Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 78.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	91.8% 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	97% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	44.7 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	3.5 Days
Run Date	Nov 03 '17 at 12:27
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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 below expectations (27^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Memory 85.7 1-Core 119 2-Core 193 78% 133 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 741 66% 561 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 122 Parallax 116 94% 118 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 108 Splatting 108 86% 105 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 117GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4375 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 998 (B1) Unknown 99 99 20 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 55 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 542 (EB) Unknown 99 99 96 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18517880225	97% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 394 Mixed 413 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 35 153% 58.5 MB/s	DQ Read 36.2 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 25.5 57% 110 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 134%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 437GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 106 101 7700 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4781 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13326 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2471 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 468 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 129 129 213191 (C2) HDA temperature 125 101 22 (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	58% Above average	Read 110 Write 92.2 Mixed 96.6 75% 99.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.21 79% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 174GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 72967168 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6140 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 8636351940 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9302 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2597 (B7) Unknown 88 88 12 (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 78 58 8960344086 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 895 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 32096 (C2) HDA temperature 22 42 -140737488355306 (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 29948806959999 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18783224489 (F2) Unknown 100 253 18653290339	103% Outstanding	Read 192 Write 168 Mixed 158 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.26 83% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK32GX4M2A2666C16 CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK32GX4M2A2666C16 CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 48GB 60 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 16384, 8192, 16384, 8192 MB Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 23.9 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 28.9 SC Mixed 23.8 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 90%

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Gaming 86%

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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	4,565x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	599x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	994x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	471x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	315x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	181x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	347x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $803

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16