Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 90.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.2% 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	88% 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	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 MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160107
Uptime	6.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 02 '17 at 21:27
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (83^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.3 1-Core 141 2-Core 266 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 773 74% 612 Pts	64-Core 775 48% 775 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 116 Parallax 98.6 91% 109 fps	MRender 97.7 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP600 256GB 4,724 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 168GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 4807 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 681 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 688 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1245190 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 190 190 68735860858 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1085 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C2) HDA temperature 66 66 146030329890 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 96 96 4 (E9) Unknown 100 100 64374845696 (EA) Unknown 100 100 79416772928 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 34931462141 (F2) Unknown 100 100 18518861187	88% Excellent	Read 505 Write 282 Mixed 354 84% 380 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 22.7 136% 55.4 MB/s	DQ Read 191 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 23.2 80% 172 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 97%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 586GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 41731112 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3002 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 137391583 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9117 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1386 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 327685 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 65 420610072 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 40698 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 47244640280 (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 -132873403230511 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26795655053 (F2) Unknown 100 253 244324982990	97.9% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 155 Mixed 166 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.22 77% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	100% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 38.8 MC Mixed 32 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 41.7 SC Mixed 30 84% 29.6 GB/s	Latency 52.9 76% 52.9 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 110%

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,546x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	842x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x
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	313x
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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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