Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 99.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	111% 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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	29 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 11 '18 at 01:50
Run Duration	335 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing above expectations (73^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 149 2-Core 299 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 564 8-Core 741 83% 652 Pts	64-Core 737 46% 737 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 2992) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 122 Parallax 103 90% 112 fps	MRender 94.9 Gravity 103 Splatting 95.2 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 210GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6298 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 562 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 66 66 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 36 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12240977405	111% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 394 Mixed 414 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 91.1 4K Mixed 47.9 177% 61.1 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 119 131% 221 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 111GB free Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 4664705 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 57947698782881 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4342 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 26 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 56 30068441116 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4664705 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4664705 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4664705 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11803 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7158 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7158 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11188	72% Very good	Read 491 Write 135 Mixed 210 61% 279 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 17.4 129% 52.3 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 50.3 67% 122 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 83%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 146659784 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 564 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 40523 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6226 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 565 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 8590131203 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 68 504561694 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14530 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 25769803806 (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 -79920751439004 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18323104 (F2) Unknown 100 253 53037038	85.5% Excellent	Read 152 Write 146 Mixed 143 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.21 86% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 723GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 75130318 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9428 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 52 51 150329203151 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17795 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4369 (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 52 588578851 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 42949672995 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 12 75130318 (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 -77180562283980 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3375829683 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4230333912	61.4% Good	Read 108 Write 106 Mixed 75.8 72% 96.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.6 130% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 68%
TOSHIBA TransMemory 8GB 12,066 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 7GB free, PID 6544 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	7.11% Terrible	Read 33.3 Write 5.11 Mixed 8.81 15% 15.7 MB/s	4K Read 4.69 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.01 18% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.11% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C14 4x8GB 145 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	92.9% Outstanding	MC Read 33.2 MC Write 34.6 MC Mixed 29.4 93% 32.4 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 38.6 SC Mixed 30.9 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 56 71% 56 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 133%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,559x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	992x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	314x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	346x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Total price: $953

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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