Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% 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	120% 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.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 18 '17 at 18:20
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	ARE-User
Background CPU	37%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Memory 84.9 1-Core 116 2-Core 213 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 651 67% 538 Pts	64-Core 618 38% 618 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 154 Parallax 132 119% 144 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 142 Splatting 113 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 128GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 313 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 98 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 66 60 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1456020853	120% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 458 Mixed 470 107% 478 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 52.4 187% 66.9 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 131 150% 258 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 37736320 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 110 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 29909 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 312 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 97 (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 68 67 538443808 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 313 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 81604378656 (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 -25576530247385 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29173678 (F2) Unknown 100 253 21851473	95.8% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 163 Mixed 158 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.19 87% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 1x16GB 8,931 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	41.4% Average	MC Read 13.3 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 14.5 41% 14.5 GB/s	SC Read 8.8 SC Write 11 SC Mixed 9.6 28% 9.8 GB/s	Latency 72 56% 72 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 41.4% Great: 57%

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

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Gaming 105%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,190x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	652x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	447x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $1,081

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