Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 109% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 97.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	129% 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	64.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.5 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 19:02
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.4% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 148 2-Core 291 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 524 8-Core 784 81% 654 Pts	64-Core 806 50% 806 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 180 Reflection 196 Parallax 180 147% 186 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 178 Splatting 125 115% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD8SBBU480G1122 480GB 1,863 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 231GB free Firmware: Z3106000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2013 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 647 (A5) Unknown 100 100 532590887123 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 193 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 47 227633266723 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 300650201158 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1266 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3945 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1790 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3550 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	75.4% Very good	Read 496 Write 433 Mixed 255 87% 395 MB/s	4K Read 15.1 4K Write 88.3 4K Mixed 5.23 76% 36.2 MB/s	DQ Read 72.3 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 5.93 55% 122 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 67%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB-$139 17,545 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 161GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 7113 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2125 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 23 (A8) Unknown 100 100 101 (A9) Unknown 100 100 312 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 39 (AE) Unknown 100 100 192 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 71 304943923230 (D4) Unknown 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 286 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 10428 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5099 (F2) Unknown 253 253 13273 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	64.8% Good	Read 261 Write 232 Mixed 254 56% 249 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 85.6 4K Mixed 19.2 110% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 44.9 72% 136 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 99%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 111GB free Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3630001 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 109968342657353 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2121 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1240 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 37 64426934297 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3630001 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3630001 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3630001 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11007 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9596 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9596 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13217	64.1% Good	Read 498 Write 116 Mixed 184 58% 266 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 15.7 117% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 36.3 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 12.6 29% 57.2 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 81%
WD Black 640GB (2008)-$25 19,988 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 236GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 159 4883 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12377 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17153 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5413 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 397 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12315 (C2) HDA temperature 117 79 30 (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 200 198 430 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43% Average	Read 83.4 Write 66.3 Mixed 96.9 63% 82.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.3 87% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 4x4GB 505 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3535 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	MC Read 41.4 MC Write 43.9 MC Mixed 35.8 115% 40.4 GB/s	SC Read 24.2 SC Write 47.8 SC Mixed 34.5 101% 35.5 GB/s	Latency 48.5 82% 48.5 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%

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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	4,543x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	840x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 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 $499Bench 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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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