Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 90.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.4% 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	60% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	5.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 05 '17 at 01:46
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing as expected (45^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	Memory 90.9 1-Core 144 2-Core 274 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 488 8-Core 752 77% 620 Pts	64-Core 773 48% 773 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 114 Parallax 107 92% 111 fps	MRender 98.5 Gravity 100 Splatting 99.2 81% 99.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 53GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6131 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 169 (B1) Unknown 93 93 32 (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 53 38 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12663688647	62.6% Good	Read 361 Write 221 Mixed 214 59% 265 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 47.2 4K Mixed 17.8 101% 33.3 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 52.8 DQ Mixed 34.5 47% 90 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 114%
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4589 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 133 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 51 (AD) Unknown 100 100 852007 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 105 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 87 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2432	60% Good	Read 498 Write 228 Mixed 282 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 43.4 4K Mixed 7.81 74% 26.2 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 43.2 DQ Mixed 28.6 44% 88.5 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 91%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 414GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 93 151215609 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 142 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 75124641 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12825 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 195 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 833 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 55 756940838 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 59 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 42940 (C2) HDA temperature 38 45 64424509478 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 24 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 24 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -103899553847922 (F1) Unknown 100 253 38559854819 (F2) Unknown 100 253 802500383889	86% Excellent	Read 127 Write 172 Mixed 127 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 5.32 4K Mixed 0.56 186% 2.16 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$65 6,723 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.8% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 15.3 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 17.2 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 105%

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Gaming 86%

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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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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 $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