Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 110% UFO	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 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 107%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	77.7% 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	87.9% 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 MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	14.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '18 at 10:44
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Memory 99.2 1-Core 160 2-Core 319 106% 193 Pts	4-Core 619 8-Core 890 95% 755 Pts	64-Core 892 55% 892 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 366E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1661 MHz, MLim: 1975 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Lighting 101 Reflection 98.2 Parallax 85 82% 94.6 fps	MRender 91.8 Gravity 88.1 Splatting 77.7 69% 85.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB 1,293 User benchmarks, average bench 211% 75GB free Firmware: CXZ7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	418% Outstanding	Read 4,292 Write 2,722 Mixed 3,622 787% 3,545 MB/s	4K Read 53.8 4K Write 154 4K Mixed 64.4 246% 90.7 MB/s	DQ Read 54.5 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 38.9 52% 89.3 MB/s
Poor: 133% ↑ This bench: 418% Great: 273%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 75GB free Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11718 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2629 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 35 (AE) Unknown 99 99 377 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 882 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 44 41 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 8960 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5462 (F2) Unknown 99 99 23349	407% Outstanding	Read 4,313 Write 2,719 Mixed 3,524 780% 3,519 MB/s	4K Read 52.4 4K Write 159 4K Mixed 39.3 214% 83.4 MB/s	DQ Read 55.3 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 39 52% 89.4 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 407% Great: 220%
Samsung MZVPV128HDGM-00000 128GB 2,105 User benchmarks, average bench 180% 75GB free Firmware: BXW7 Max speed: Unknown Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	417% Outstanding	Read 4,248 Write 2,705 Mixed 3,583 780% 3,512 MB/s	4K Read 53 4K Write 157 4K Mixed 39.1 213% 83 MB/s	DQ Read 461 DQ Write 407 DQ Mixed 39 137% 302 MB/s
Poor: 119% ↑ This bench: 417% Great: 214%
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB 1,293 User benchmarks, average bench 211% 75GB free Firmware: CXZ7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	407% Outstanding	Read 4,356 Write 2,687 Mixed 3,530 781% 3,524 MB/s	4K Read 53.5 4K Write 160 4K Mixed 39.9 217% 84.4 MB/s	DQ Read 53.8 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 38.5 51% 87.9 MB/s
Poor: 133% ↑ This bench: 407% Great: 273%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14928 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2113 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 70 46 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 17 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1572 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8407626997	87.9% Excellent	Read 498 Write 348 Mixed 335 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 81.3 4K Mixed 21.3 139% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 47.1 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 63.6 73% 118 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 108%
Seagate ST3750330AS 750GB-$137 3,651 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 698GB free Firmware: SD15 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239232372 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2225 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 68750085084 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4191 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 48 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2285 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 38655361039 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 56 403701784 (C2) HDA temperature 24 44 68719476760 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 22 239232372 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 188 141	47.4% Average	Read 101 Write 63.9 Mixed 71.8 59% 78.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.45 112% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 9,254 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	MC Read 45.4 MC Write 46.4 MC Mixed 32.2 118% 41.3 GB/s	SC Read 27 SC Write 49.1 SC Mixed 36.4 107% 37.5 GB/s	Latency 39.7 101% 39.7 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 117%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,185x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	651x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	446x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	218x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $56Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $1,130

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	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