Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	103% 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	221% 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	29.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 01 '17 at 00:36
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 96.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 244 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 653 67% 538 Pts	64-Core 628 39% 628 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 145 Parallax 137 109% 139 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 124 Splatting 104 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Hectron HECX1-500G 500GB 69 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 258GB free Firmware: H1AB02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 46 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 988 (A0) Unknown 100 100 8 (A1) Unknown 100 100 218 (A3) Unknown 100 100 5 (A4) Unknown 100 100 27089 (A5) Unknown 100 100 32 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 12 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 112 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 50 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 14069 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 7 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 4 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 125287 (F2) Unknown 100 100 218400 (F5) Unknown 100 100 216712	104% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 393 Mixed 439 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 39.6 161% 62.3 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 64.4 98% 181 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 166GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3118 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1564 (B1) Unknown 98 98 28 (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 61 42 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 499 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30586573145	118% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 414 Mixed 424 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 48 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 47.6 192% 68.4 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 130 149% 257 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	221% Outstanding	Read 2,022 Write 861 Mixed 1,099 291% 1,327 MB/s	4K Read 51.8 4K Write 192 4K Mixed 41.7 233% 95 MB/s	DQ Read 545 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 180 201% 348 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 221% Great: 243%
Drevo X1-240G 240GB 516 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 108GB free Firmware: D1DB11 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 374 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 33 (A3) Unknown 100 100 328 (94) Unknown 100 100 7057 (95) Unknown 100 100 134 (96) Unknown 100 100 0 (97) Unknown 100 100 99 (A4) Unknown 100 100 2998 (A5) Unknown 100 100 11 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43049113681949 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 12413 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2206 (F5) Unknown 100 100 17706 (F6) Unknown 100 100 14114 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	108% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 386 Mixed 444 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 40.6 166% 63.4 MB/s	DQ Read 303 DQ Write 302 DQ Mixed 27.2 96% 211 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 95%
Seagate ST31000524NS 1TB-$94 5,596 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 552GB free Firmware: KA05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 171101982 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1789 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 13263579441 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 24015 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 641 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590131203 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 53 605880356 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 157 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1526 (C2) HDA temperature 36 47 64424509476 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 29 171101982 (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 -11330123700757 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2960494184 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2589956566	70.5% Very good	Read 124 Write 121 Mixed 102 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.6 131% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 8,189 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 274GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 24578752 (03) Spinup time 93 87 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4452 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12928565809 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8606 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3179 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BC) Unknown 100 98 21475360780 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 63 40 11575559651365 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1261 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4774 (C2) HDA temperature 37 60 64424509477 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 13 24578752 (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 75917841933576 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1713518323 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1793063694	55% Above average	Read 92.5 Write 99.4 Mixed 95.1 72% 95.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.16 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.15 40% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB-$160 110,884 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 38.4 MC Write 40.7 MC Mixed 31.8 106% 37 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 45.3 SC Mixed 30.9 94% 32.8 GB/s	Latency 53 75% 53 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 114%

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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	4,545x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	841x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	887x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	342x
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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Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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