Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.9% 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	74.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	6.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131030
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 02 '17 at 19:18
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 89.4 1-Core 109 2-Core 218 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 442 59% 440 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.9% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 117 Parallax 97.2 84% 106 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 97 Splatting 103 82% 99.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 171GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4812 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2066 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21482438746 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 46 (A8) Unknown 100 100 25 (A9) Unknown 100 100 570 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1421 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 61 261993922591 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 107376934954 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1425 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1807 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1404 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4606 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	49.5% Average	Read 298 Write 248 Mixed 6.09 40% 184 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 49.7 4K Mixed 8.4 73% 27.3 MB/s	DQ Read 23.6 DQ Write 52 DQ Mixed 25.6 23% 33.8 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 108%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14776 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1617 (B1) Unknown 92 92 87 (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 71 55 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 269 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18543811441	74.2% Very good	Read 475 Write 335 Mixed 335 85% 382 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 69.5 4K Mixed 18.7 111% 40.4 MB/s	DQ Read 34.1 DQ Write 71 DQ Mixed 15.8 22% 40.3 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 108%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$497 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 684GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 122 122 25801851327 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8245 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 44619 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3849 (C0) Power-off retract count 92 92 9811 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 9811 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 287763857437 (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 200 200 5	53.3% Above average	Read 89.2 Write 96.5 Mixed 99.6 72% 95.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.3 80% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 64C0MHHHJ-HS 2x4GB 972 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	54.1% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 19.4 MC Mixed 17.1 52% 18.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.6 SC Mixed 17.5 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 54%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO - $190

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,155x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	409x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	174x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	95x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	91x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	88x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	63x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	50x

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Total price: $640

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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