Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 94% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	108% 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	74.5% 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.

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '18 at 01:03
Run Duration	606 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 93.1 1-Core 138 2-Core 264 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 523 8-Core 845 84% 684 Pts	64-Core 1,100 68% 1,100 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 153 Parallax 130 114% 141 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 139 Splatting 113 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 383GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5629 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 923 (A5) Unknown 100 100 103131644587 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 60 (A8) Unknown 100 100 26 (A9) Unknown 100 100 626 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 90 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 64 274878955553 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1507551215967 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4174 (EA) Unknown 100 100 14000 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10061 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12920 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.5% Very good	Read 474 Write 216 Mixed 257 69% 316 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 66.9 4K Mixed 18.1 106% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 314 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 40.8 88% 184 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 681GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 170 1891 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 208 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1048 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 196 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 55 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 305 (C2) HDA temperature 109 109 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	95.3% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 166 Mixed 160 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 1.24 4K Write 2.92 4K Mixed 0.37 147% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 417GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 186267760 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4704 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 145942367 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15132 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2266 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032835 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 53 555483168 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 158 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 73413 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 64424509472 (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 -64660732628249 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -58141902909766 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31157185382401	86.1% Excellent	Read 138 Write 162 Mixed 142 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.31 92% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 112%
USB DISK 2.0 32GB 630 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 25GB free, PID 9917 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	3.74% Terrible	Read 9.72 Write 1.95 Mixed 2.12 4% 4.59 MB/s	4K Read 8.05 4K Write 0.001 4K Mixed 0.002 30% 2.68 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.74% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB 1,548 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.7% Good	MC Read 27 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 19.7 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 23 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 94%

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Workstation 103%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO - $250

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,386x
Core i9-9900KIntel $410Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	298x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	686x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	336x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	229x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	199x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	183x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	177x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	145x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	115x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $1,129

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $178	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16