Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 132% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 116% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	136% 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	309% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	29.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 01 '18 at 21:38
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 150 2-Core 295 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 505 8-Core 818 81% 662 Pts	64-Core 818 51% 818 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 193 Reflection 213 Parallax 212 157% 206 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 184 Splatting 129 121% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 323GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	309% Outstanding	Read 2,635 Write 1,681 Mixed 1,810 452% 2,042 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 183 4K Mixed 65.8 245% 96.9 MB/s	DQ Read 609 DQ Write 533 DQ Mixed 38 174% 393 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 309% Great: 353%
Seagate Barracuda Pro 6TB (2016)-$149 321 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4.5TB free Firmware: DN03 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 75 64 30190696 (03) Spinup time 88 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 416 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 66970847 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -42485816491307 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 186 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 58 572522528 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 766 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2387 (C2) HDA temperature 32 42 68719476768 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 9 1 30190696 (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 44727789421004 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9893144834 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7978084080
Poor: 23% Great: 118%
WD WD20EACS-11BHUB0 2TB 1,089 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 253 168 1158 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3505 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18112 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1801 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 280 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 26 26 523041 (C2) HDA temperature 123 100 27 (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	65.2% Good	Read 112 Write 116 Mixed 112 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.21 80% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 66%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 14134384 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2132 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18052838 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8574 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1842 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590131204 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 471334939 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 207 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5394 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 60129542171 (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 -118296284223278 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11358449654 (F2) Unknown 100 253 727132389821	96.2% Outstanding	Read 128 Write 206 Mixed 168 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 0.71 214% 2.29 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 30,689 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 37.7 MC Write 40.7 MC Mixed 34.1 107% 37.5 GB/s	SC Read 23.1 SC Write 43 SC Mixed 33 94% 33 GB/s	Latency 51.9 77% 51.9 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 118%

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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	4,566x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	599x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	994x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	471x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	315x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	181x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	347x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $746

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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 $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16