Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	48.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	257% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	24.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '17 at 01:57
Run Duration	208 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 137 2-Core 275 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 513 8-Core 758 79% 635 Pts	64-Core 767 48% 767 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 470-$126 94,030 User benchmarks, average bench 40% MSI(1462 3411) CLim: 1242 MHz, MLim: 1650 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	48.7% Average	Lighting 61.5 Reflection 63 Parallax 76.2 50% 66.9 fps	MRender 61.8 Gravity 57.6 Splatting 51.2 46% 56.9 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 47%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 780GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12831 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 554 (B1) Unknown 100 100 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 60 53 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 188 (F1) Unknown 99 99 474518573
Poor: 80% Great: 133%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 384GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	257% Outstanding	Read 2,101 Write 1,391 Mixed 1,473 366% 1,655 MB/s	4K Read 47.7 4K Write 139 4K Mixed 59.1 222% 81.9 MB/s	DQ Read 517 DQ Write 404 DQ Mixed 213 227% 378 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 257% Great: 283%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2TB free Firmware: SC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 157531960 (03) Spinup time 97 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 22275 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 41515082 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 32341 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1018 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 275 (BE) vendor-specific 60 51 773849128 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 444 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22301 (C2) HDA temperature 40 49 103079215144 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	76.2% Very good	Read 142 Write 124 Mixed 132 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.18 65% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 100%
Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB 824 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 2TB free Firmware: SN01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 170571083 (03) Spinup time 89 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2047 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 132859476 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 138723148706340 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 543 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 91 60130459662 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 56 44 857800748 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 262 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 5067050 (C2) HDA temperature 44 56 107374182444 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 2 1 170571083 (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 -55800215101177 (F1) Unknown 100 253 72717419477 (F2) Unknown 100 253 62846253271
Poor: 68% Great: 128%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2TB free Firmware: SC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 207015824 (03) Spinup time 97 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 13002 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 190822007 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 31404 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1016 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 938 (BE) vendor-specific 60 52 773849128 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 317 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13080 (C2) HDA temperature 40 48 107374182440 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	78.8% Very good	Read 159 Write 116 Mixed 140 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.15 72% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 100%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 576GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 2191 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3917 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28240 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 586 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 285 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3631 (C2) HDA temperature 103 95 40 (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	85.4% Excellent	Read 153 Write 145 Mixed 114 102% 137 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.36 138% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB 2,670 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	58.5% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.5 MC Mixed 16.4 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 21 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 104%

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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	4,553x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	440x
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	345x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

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 $40	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