Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC)

Performance Results


Gaming 118% UFO	Desktop 105% UFO	Workstation 111% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 107%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	108% 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	104% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC) (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171101
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 26 '17 at 04:13
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Memory 98.4 1-Core 160 2-Core 318 105% 192 Pts	4-Core 616 8-Core 1,036 101% 826 Pts	64-Core 1,325 82% 1,325 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3363) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 146 Parallax 127 118% 139 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 135 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC480G1CS1754D117-514 480GB 2,428 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 278GB free Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1698 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2141 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 208 (B1) Unknown 0 0 180 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 38 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6011 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 86 (E7) Temperature 99 100 38 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4 (EA) Unknown 0 0 100 (F1) Unknown 0 0 32413 (F2) Unknown 0 0 31390	97.1% Outstanding	Read 417 Write 395 Mixed 401 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 34.8 145% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 292 DQ Mixed 66.9 109% 207 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 99%
Adata XPG SX6000 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$45 6,819 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: V6005-a9 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	104% Outstanding	Read 699 Write 482 Mixed 525 126% 569 MB/s	4K Read 41.4 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 18.1 151% 61 MB/s	DQ Read 41.8 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 18 33% 62.8 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 140%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 32GB free Firmware: 2.13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 94317443 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 80247168990670 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5652 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 514 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 30 128850985088 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 94317443 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 94317443 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 94317443 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12655 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11425 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11425 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20289	69.5% Good	Read 513 Write 141 Mixed 218 63% 291 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 14.2 130% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 36.5 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 13.5 29% 55.9 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 165789760 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 942 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7471653 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 985 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 535 (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 65 62 605552675 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 166 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5139 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 77309411363 (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 49636937040410 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8038751412 (F2) Unknown 100 253 47000703416	92.5% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 147 Mixed 164 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.2 71% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 890GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145291248 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2752 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 28042428 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3584 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1288 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65538 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 66 61 605552674 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 174 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21010 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 81604378658 (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 56173877266204 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14715944731 (F2) Unknown 100 253 456407542231	94.6% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 151 Mixed 170 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.19 74% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 2,692 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 40 MC Write 38.3 MC Mixed 28.1 101% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 23.9 SC Write 39.4 SC Mixed 32.3 91% 31.9 GB/s	Latency 44.1 91% 44.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 119%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 103%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC) - $320

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,910x
Core i9-9900KIntel $410Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	265x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	260x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	867x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	356x
RTX 3080-TiNvidia $660Bench 204%, 155,335 samples	261x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	274x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	188x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	180x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	332x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	192x
KHX2400C15/8G KHX2400C15D4/4G KHX2400C15/8G 20GBKingstonBench 84%, 239 samples	69x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $1,262

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