Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	113% 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	118% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit väriä
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160302
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Dec 18 '17 at 19:08
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing way above expectations (87^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 way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 135 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 514 8-Core 746 79% 630 Pts	64-Core 746 46% 746 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 155 Parallax 133 123% 146 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 145 Splatting 113 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 158GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8267 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 974 (B1) Unknown 98 98 63 (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 71 65 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 45 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12245963617	118% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 495 Mixed 500 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 39.4 172% 65.4 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 309 DQ Mixed 25.8 103% 229 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 85GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8260 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 971 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 73 64 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 11 (EB) Unknown 99 99 39 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4820745435	106% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 499 Mixed 510 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 26.5 157% 62.5 MB/s	DQ Read 39.1 DQ Write 332 DQ Mixed 26.5 68% 132 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 124%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 47GB free Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	156% Outstanding	Read 1,547 Write 544 Mixed 814 212% 968 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 150 4K Mixed 27.3 166% 70.6 MB/s	DQ Read 35.2 DQ Write 502 DQ Mixed 27.4 93% 188 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 156% Great: 144%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 866GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 183 3800 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 428 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3122 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 428 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 409 (C2) HDA temperature 116 112 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	112% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 205 Mixed 172 141% 187 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.79 4K Mixed 0.32 120% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 112%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 775GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 182 3891 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 428 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3122 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 428 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 408 (C2) HDA temperature 117 113 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	105% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 198 Mixed 157 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 3.07 4K Mixed 0.43 140% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB-$169 37,519 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	MC Read 33.5 MC Write 34.6 MC Mixed 28.2 92% 32.1 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 37.3 SC Mixed 28.4 82% 28.8 GB/s	Latency 55.3 72% 55.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 97%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	841x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	887x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	342x
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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Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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