Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	72.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.1% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20150915
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 20:22
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$219 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Memory 80.4 1-Core 103 2-Core 206 73% 130 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 596 60% 488 Pts	64-Core 622 38% 622 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	72.6% Very good	Lighting 92.7 Reflection 100 Parallax 90.9 76% 94.7 fps	MRender 82.3 Gravity 84.7 Splatting 78.9 67% 82 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 484GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th 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 58 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 61 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 65 150324903960 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 66491931 (F7) Unknown 100 100 2104826 (F8) Unknown 100 100 13938246 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1921 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	81.8% Excellent	Read 474 Write 327 Mixed 335 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 69.4 4K Mixed 23.2 104% 39.1 MB/s	DQ Read 314 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 44.4 92% 189 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 99%
Corsair Force LX 256GB-$129 2,404 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 170GB free Firmware: N0530C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th 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 100 100 176 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 871 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 54 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 8470 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 41 (A3) Unknown 100 100 29 (A4) Unknown 100 100 3725 (A5) Unknown 100 100 18 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 3 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 16383 (F2) Unknown 100 100 41483	84% Excellent	Read 491 Write 283 Mixed 361 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 98.1 4K Mixed 21 120% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 264 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 42.4 93% 191 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 99%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.06 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 19087230 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 -28183575369280 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1622 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 304 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 51 60132884517 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 19087230 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 19087230 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 19087230 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 81 81 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 80996 (EA) Unknown 0 0 50569 (F1) Unknown 0 0 50569 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13734	67.1% Good	Read 414 Write 196 Mixed 230 62% 280 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 15.4 106% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 46.3 72% 136 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 73 64 20560720 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 336 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 151781612 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -28630251989473 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (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 76 64 403767320 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31001 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 68719476760 (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 -110603997801056 (F1) Unknown 100 253 60510765303 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1111014214	81.9% Excellent	Read 160 Write 125 Mixed 129 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 105%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 194GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 242183568 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5660 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 69965481 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26666 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1546 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 72 51 4782751772 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 209 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 342030 (C2) HDA temperature 28 49 -140737488355300 (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 19305878009615 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -83431552053246 (F2) Unknown 100 253 134337969586688	63.9% Good	Read 125 Write 98.1 Mixed 112 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.43 92% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 4,583 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.9% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 23 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 20.7 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 79.8 50% 79.8 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 117%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $219Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,597x
Core i5-6600KIntel $122Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	853x
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	604x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	997x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	898x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	476x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	443x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	319x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	181x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	350x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $44Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	256x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	138x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $747

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $44	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16