Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 86.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	117% 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	189% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	25.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '17 at 17:39
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing as expected (55^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 127 2-Core 236 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 437 8-Core 704 70% 571 Pts	64-Core 708 44% 708 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 0426) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	Lighting 159 Reflection 154 Parallax 135 130% 149 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 147 Splatting 116 105% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 281GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 865 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (A5) Unknown 100 100 6291530 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 37 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 572 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 16 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 63 270583988251 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 90195230741 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 880 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1534 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1465 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1076 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	83.7% Excellent	Read 492 Write 319 Mixed 325 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 66.1 4K Mixed 20.3 110% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 43.8 94% 197 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 108%
Patriot Hellfire NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$268 852 User benchmarks, average bench 154% 199GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	189% Outstanding	Read 2,130 Write 713 Mixed 484 240% 1,109 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 99.3 4K Mixed 35.2 143% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 513 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 87.1 143% 283 MB/s
Poor: 102% ↑ This bench: 189% Great: 209%
Corsair CSSD-V64GB2 64GB 219 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 41GB free Firmware: 2.2 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 112 76 0 (0C) Power cycle count 116 13 0 (B8) Unknown 38 0 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 0 0 (C4) Reallocation count 0 0 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 2 0 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 44 59 374573 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 98 203 185014 (C8) Write error rate 150 234 7744 (C9) Soft read error rate 113 164 4235 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 125 11 5988 (CB) Run out cancel 83 170 4108 (CC) Soft ECC correction 0 0 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 136 19 0 (CE) Flying height 125 44 0 (CF) Spin high current 182 52 0 (D0) Spin buzz 213 50 0 (D1) Offline seek performance 99 0 0 (D3) Unknown 0 0 0 (D4) Unknown 0 0 0 (D5) Unknown 0 0 0	28.7% Poor	Read 191 Write 110 Mixed 122 31% 141 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 7.42 4K Mixed 5.56 51% 13.1 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 28.7% Great: 34%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 8TB 1,740 User benchmarks, average bench 166% 4TB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	159% Outstanding	Read 308 Write 247 Mixed 166 178% 240 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 5.56 4K Mixed 0.49 196% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 159% Great: 262%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 401GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 179 7875 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3759 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5728 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2528 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 181 181 58586 (C2) HDA temperature 124 114 28 (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 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43% Average	Read 70 Write 79.6 Mixed 106 65% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.23 86% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C14 4x8GB 388 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.1% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 22.9 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 24.1 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 64.7 62% 64.7 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 171%

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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	4,557x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	992x
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	442x
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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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