Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	75.3% 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	73.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	38.8 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150810
Uptime	13.9 Days
Run Date	Dec 13 '17 at 13:06
Run Duration	215 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing as expected (49^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 above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 89.1 1-Core 134 2-Core 244 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 679 69% 561 Pts	64-Core 706 44% 706 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75.3% Very good	Lighting 98.6 Reflection 103 Parallax 91.7 80% 97.8 fps	MRender 86.1 Gravity 89.4 Splatting 69 66% 81.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 5547766 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 -85048942363900 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1189 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 513 (B1) Unknown 0 0 14 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 7 7 93 (BD) vendor-specific 36 73 51544391716 (C2) HDA temperature 36 73 51544391716 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5547766 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5547766 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5547766 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 86 86 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 116913 (EA) Unknown 0 0 86313 (F1) Unknown 0 0 86313 (F2) Unknown 0 0 23015	73.4% Very good	Read 464 Write 226 Mixed 230 67% 307 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 68.3 4K Mixed 19.4 108% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 226 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 65.6 88% 161 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 94%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 46GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15644 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 533 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 57 47 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 41 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5772644721	102% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 404 Mixed 418 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 68.8 4K Mixed 41.8 151% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 221 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 106 119% 200 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 124%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8733 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18686 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 36 36 47215 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1754 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 250 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18435 (C2) HDA temperature 115 91 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 47	82.9% Excellent	Read 164 Write 125 Mixed 132 106% 140 MB/s	4K Read 1.15 4K Write 2.69 4K Mixed 0.53 157% 1.46 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 85%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 736GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 199 199 24272 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8450 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8177 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 3 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 36 36 46944 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1755 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 243 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7933 (C2) HDA temperature 117 92 35 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 126 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 20 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 142 130 11757	67.9% Good	Read 118 Write 118 Mixed 116 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.55 150% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 85%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 178GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8800 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3129 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 31484 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1187 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 204 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2924 (C2) HDA temperature 103 94 49 (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 17 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 44% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK32GX4M2A2666C16 CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK32GX4M2A2666C16 48GB 31 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 16384, 8192, 16384 MB Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.7% Very good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 22.7 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 22.2 64% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 68.3 58% 68.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 89%

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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	4,554x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 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 $94Bench 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 $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 $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