Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	98.3% 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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	17.4 GB free of 24 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 19 '18 at 12:08
Run Duration	613 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	5%

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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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 106 2-Core 246 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 693 68% 560 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2602 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 150 Parallax 125 110% 136 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 131 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6722 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 951 (B1) Unknown 93 93 414 (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 65 58 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 113 (F1) Unknown 99 99 169773946044	98.3% Outstanding	Read 527 Write 500 Mixed 506 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 25 143% 55.7 MB/s	DQ Read 37.3 DQ Write 177 DQ Mixed 138 97% 117 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 124%
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB-$80 4,893 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 12GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 27546501 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 46420006553479 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4060 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 149 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 27546501 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 27546501 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 27546501 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 28826 (EA) Unknown 0 0 30076 (F1) Unknown 0 0 30076 (F2) Unknown 0 0 54970	82.5% Excellent	Read 491 Write 247 Mixed 275 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 22.4 130% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 218 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 75.6 96% 170 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 91%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 389GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 127 89 6650 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7118 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20117 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 921 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 612 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 41034 (C2) HDA temperature 113 94 34 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	46.1% Average	Read 86.4 Write 73.9 Mixed 77.2 60% 79.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.23 82% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 57%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 115GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 7616 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3572 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5818 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 668 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3473 (C2) HDA temperature 111 101 41 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	60.5% Good	Read 116 Write 94 Mixed 84.8 74% 98.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 2.49 4K Mixed 0.41 135% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 85%
Patriot Supersonic Boost XT USB 3.0 32GB 192 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 29GB free, PID 5100 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	13.6% Very poor	Read 42.3 Write 16.3 Mixed 25.2 32% 28 MB/s	4K Read 5.25 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.42 63% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 13.6% Great: 19%
Generic Flash Disk 4GB 16,068 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 4GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	4.53% Terrible	Read 17.7 Write 2.51 Mixed 4.07 7% 8.09 MB/s	4K Read 5.95 4K Write 0.004 4K Mixed 0.003 22% 1.99 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.53% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 24GB 319 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 3000, 3000, 3000, 3000 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	MC Read 35.1 MC Write 38 MC Mixed 31.1 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.7 SC Write 36.2 SC Mixed 27.7 80% 27.9 GB/s	Latency 56.4 71% 56.4 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 104%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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	4,554x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	440x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	313x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	345x
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 $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 $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