Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC)

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 104% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	123% 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	274% 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	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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC) (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171101
Uptime	4.7 Days
Run Date	Feb 26 '18 at 20:28
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 91.9 1-Core 135 2-Core 263 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 463 8-Core 822 77% 642 Pts	64-Core 1,133 70% 1,133 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2992 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 185 Parallax 181 138% 178 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 172 Splatting 119 110% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 500GB free Firmware: P1003B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd 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 100 100 104 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 514 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 13 (A3) Unknown 100 100 44 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1233 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (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 11 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 67477 (F2) Unknown 100 100 191049 (F5) Unknown 100 100 78912	82.8% Excellent	Read 489 Write 392 Mixed 442 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 14.9 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 19.8 95% 41.4 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 74.7 103% 187 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 105%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 512GB 18,578 User benchmarks, average bench 191% 459GB free Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	142% Outstanding	Read 783 Write 868 Mixed 800 183% 817 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 95.7 4K Mixed 34.8 130% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 320 DQ Write 486 DQ Mixed 186 202% 331 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 142% Great: 332%
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB 6,967 User benchmarks, average bench 225% 318GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXY7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	274% Outstanding	Read 2,441 Write 1,288 Mixed 1,457 381% 1,729 MB/s	4K Read 53.7 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 59.3 219% 76.3 MB/s	DQ Read 822 DQ Write 554 DQ Mixed 288 323% 554 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 274% Great: 294%
WD WD7500AACS-00D6B0 750GB 4,630 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 17GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 154 6416 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9492 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24234 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4056 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 173 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9491 (C2) HDA temperature 119 97 31 (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	22.3% Poor	Read 40 Write 37.1 Mixed 39.8 29% 38.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.34 93% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 22.3% Great: 46%
WD My Passport 25EA 4TB 1,124 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 1.5TB free, PID 25ea Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	35.4% Below average	Read 93.9 Write 85.1 Mixed 74 106% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.08 40% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3600 C17 2x8GB 9,834 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.4% Good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 25 MC Mixed 20.1 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 21.6 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 117%

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Typical ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC) Builds (Compare 3,996 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 112%

UFO

Desktop 96%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 103%

UFO

Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC) - $320

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,910x
Core i9-9900KIntel $410Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	265x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	260x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	867x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	356x
RTX 3080-TiNvidia $660Bench 204%, 155,335 samples	261x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	274x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	188x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	180x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	332x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	192x
KHX2400C15/8G KHX2400C15D4/4G KHX2400C15/8G 20GBKingstonBench 84%, 239 samples	69x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $1,262

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 $184	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